(July 21, 2012 at 8:10 am)RaphielDrake Wrote: Given the unlikely nature of the events and the only record of these events is in The Bible, a text riddled with equally unlikely and unproven events, what makes you think they happened at all? Maybe someone... I dunno... made it up? Maybe as a means to control people afraid of their own mortality? Just spitballing here. :-)
There is no need to be "spitballing" if you know the bible.
Ezekiel 22:6-8
New International Version (NIV)
6 “‘See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood. 7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow. 8 You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths.
