When does biblical history begin ?

[Huggy Bear]

Personally I think the bible becomes real history with the story of Jesus. We have historical evidence of His existence, His death by crucifixion, His 12 disciples and their deaths, and the rapid spread of very early Christianity. 

I'm not opposed to believing in some Old Testament people as having been real people (like Abraham for example), but don't believe things played out literally as they are written. 

I don't think original sin = Adam and Eve eating a forbidden apple. I think that's allegory for the first opportunity we had to sin, which was taken. I think this "opportunity" happened somewhere along the evolutionary process of homo sapiens. At some point, enough "clicked" in the brain of an early human to where they became aware of morality in their actions. That's original sin. It's the fact that we can and will commit sins, given the opportunity. 

That's my own opinion of how it played out, anyway. The Church leaves the story of Genesis open to interpretation, so long as we come away from it believing that God is the creator and that human beings have original sin.

There was no one named "Jesus" in ancient times.  The name didn't exist until 1630, which is 387 years ago.  

Now since almost everything you know is less than 100 years old why do you continue to believe silly ancient fairy tales?

*emphasis mine*
You do realize that the King James version of the bible was published in 1611 right? Not to mention the name also appears in the Wycliffe version of the bible (although it's written in middle english) published in the late 1300's