(August 30, 2013 at 8:57 am)Drich Wrote: Alexander the Great conquered the city in or around 330 BC. After he died there was a lot of in fighting amongst his remaining generals, and during the time the city fell to ruins. It wasn't till Demertius III rebuilt the city renaming it demetrias that people began to live and work there again.. When the Romans came it was again conquered and rebuilt and incorporated it into a group of ten cities name decapolius. By that point Isaiah's Damascus was long gone.
I give that bit of mental gymnastics, a
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I've seen better from you.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
