(March 14, 2014 at 2:46 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: I guess the difficulty I personally have with the authenticity of the bible, other than the obvious issues with it, is that there is truly no independent evidence or verification of authorship or dating of the books included in the bible. Even historians are guessing, surmising. If you have ten "scholars" in the room, you'll get ten different answers. Even if they're subtly different.
So, that's one of the main problems I have with taking the Bible as a reliable history marker. (Putting aside the religious aspect of it for a moment)
Then you should be a historical skeptic with regards to every piece of ancient literature, not just the Bible.