RE: People in bible never existed according to head of Theology at a university in UK!
December 30, 2017 at 11:27 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2017 at 11:29 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(December 30, 2017 at 11:21 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: From your own link.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...ry-BC.html
Quote:
- Experts say they offer evidence of biblical kings David and Solomon
I refer back to your earlier quote:
(December 30, 2017 at 10:22 pm)possibletarian Wrote: who are we to listen to..? people who believe these myths, or someone who has actually studied and travelled extensively and has a credited qualification.
It's not 'thiests' that are making the connection to David and Solomon, it's the experts, whom by your own admission you believe without question.
Hey don't get fooled by sensational journalism, if you read the article you can see there is no inscription that it was by David or even by Jews. Not just that but you can go to Jerusalem and travel guides will point you to pile of rocks and claim that it was put there by king David.
It can all be seen in Francesca Stavrakopoulou's documentary about absence of evidence for David. In it you can see how eager Jews are to find evidence and basically every rock they uncover they first proclaim that it must have been put there by king David. Also when you come to Jerusalem today guides will tell you how this pile of rock and that pile was put by king David although it's not. So you can see how finding evidence for David is fueled not just by money that tourism brings in but also politics.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
