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Why are other civilizations ignored in the Bible?
RE: Why are other civilizations ignored in the Bible?
(February 24, 2014 at 10:45 am)discipulus Wrote: Is this a good argument. No it is not.

No it isn't, but then I think you missed the point. When the only accounts of a person and associated events - particularly when they were supposed to be so world altering - come from one single collated source written by people with a vested interest and an agenda; when generals and historians contemporaneous with the alleged events and who lived, travelled and fought in the locations where these events are meant to have taken place and yet wrote nothing about them, while at the same time writing copious works about actual real events and people; when some of this extra-biblical evidence is known to have been tampered with at a later date by people trying to create corroborating evidence that clearly isn't there (otherwise why bother?) - that's when alarm bells ought to be sounding with regards to your 'reliable sources'.

(February 24, 2014 at 10:45 am)discipulus Wrote:
(February 24, 2014 at 10:37 am)Stimbo Wrote: Would you count yourself among that category? Remember, when you point the finger at other people, you have four fingers pointing at yourself.

Many times in the past I confess that I have failed to obey Christ's teachings. I have no one to blame for this failure but myself.

And yet you still consider yourself a xtian. By what metric, then, can you possibly determine that others might not be, since by your own estimation you would fall into that same category?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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Why are other civilizations ignored in the Bible? - by catman - February 15, 2014 at 11:56 pm
RE: Why are other civilizations ignored in the Bible? - by Lek - February 17, 2014 at 10:18 pm
RE: Why are other civilizations ignored in the Bible? - by Lek - February 21, 2014 at 10:07 pm
RE: Why are other civilizations ignored in the Bible? - by Lek - February 21, 2014 at 11:34 pm
RE: Why are other civilizations ignored in the Bible? - by Cyberman - February 24, 2014 at 10:59 am

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