RE: Bible Archaeology Book Recommendations?
May 7, 2012 at 5:35 am
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2012 at 5:37 am by DeeTee.)
(May 7, 2012 at 12:33 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote:(May 7, 2012 at 12:15 am)Minimalist Wrote: What? I object strenuously!
You cut off the rest of my sentence that qualifies that. I'm complaining about the way apologists assume that the Bible is true and then find data in history/science that confirms that assumption while ignoring contradictory data. In other words, using the bible like a pair of glasses (rather poor analogy though).
You are assuming that they ignored contradictory data. KA Kitchen's work "On the Reliability of the Old Testament' works through many supposed contradictory thought. OH and we believers do not assume the Bible is true, we KNOW it is.
You seem to ignore the fact that science and history are NOT immune to the sin and corruption that entered the world at Adam's sin. Which means that unbelievers will write both according to their unbelief and not the truth.
They say that history is in the eye of the historian so how can you think that you are getting a complete and honest picture when historians slant their work toward whatever objective/bias they have?
Case in point: I read Mcphersons book on the civil war, I also read Catton's trilogy and I read Foote's work and guess what? Even though they were all talking about the same historical event, none of them had the same slant on the information. Oh they had similar facts that agreed with each other but each one had their own bias and none agreed with the other.
You are dreaming if you think you will get objectivity from secular people. science alone has its own influences that taint the work produced. Theoretical physicists do not agree with each other so how do you think they are being objective and presenting the real story?
In other words you cannot accuse the Biblical apologists (to use your term) of being biased when your own side is doing the exact same thing or worse.
