Proof That the Bible Isn't the Word of God

[FallentoReason]

Answering to Thomas Paine's Age of Reason:
http://www.answering-islam.org/authors/m...paine.html

I posted that, just in case we are indeed having other people 'think' for us.

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This link is about the Gospel of Matthew. Nevermind though. I particularly liked this bit:

He [Thomas Paine] fails to understand that it was quite natural for an Evangelist to touch upon a subject unmentioned by another...

Oh ok. That explains why Matthew is the only writer in antiquity that mentions a goddamn earthquake which unleashed zombie saints upon Jerusalem.

Common sense : 1 - Christian apologetics : 0

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As if this isn't enough evidence, there's another instance whithin Genesis that reveals it was written centuries after Moses' time. This comes from Genesis 36:31 which says "and these are the kings which reigned in Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel" which, for it to make sense, must necessarily have been written after at least one king reigned Israel.

It's only necessary from an a priori naturalist viewpoint. Without that, the reference to future kings of Israel is explained as prophecy. Deut 17, also in the books of Moses, says outright that Israel will one day have a king.

Deuteronomy falls like the rest of them:

Deut. 3:11
For only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the race of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon?Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.

How is it that Moses knows the whereabouts of such an object and even its dimensions if Ammon was neither Og's town or a place Moses conquered? Therefore such details must have come about after the time the place was conquered; in the time of David:

2 Samuel 12:26,27
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city. And Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.

I'm sorry, but prophecies aren't something of this world, like you make them out to be.

EDIT: I mean, so what? So what that the desires of these people for a king was projected in Deut. 17? Are they not allowed to wish for themselves the same that every other nation had? To call this prophecy is wishful thinking of the highest order.