(February 17, 2014 at 2:39 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: Would you have accepted the Bible as the word of God if it had included historical information about every (or at least more than one) region/civilization? I ask this because your argument assumes that the word of God would focus on more than one specific region of the entire planet and since the Bible doesn't, it can't be the real word of God. Is this what you believe?
If the Bible included knowledge about unknown lands, stories about God reveling himself to peoples that were not yet know , then yes that would be miraculous. However, like all other religious texts it simply sticks to the geographical region and the peoples that the writers would have been aware of.
It is also quite the coincidence that the Jews picked Yahweh out of their pantheism as being the correct God to worship. The Arab pagans also were worshiping a God named Allah before Muhhamad verified that it was the correct deity.
