(June 6, 2014 at 2:03 pm)mickiel Wrote: We found king nebuchadnezzars castle and he was recorded in Daniel 4th chapter of the bible;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_II
A stunning find.
Yes, I admitted that the Bible gets some things right, historically.
That is not unusual. People alive at the time would include real places and people in their stories. Just like Home did in the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Here's a some things that the Bible gets wrong:
There is zero archeological evidence that Hebrews lived in Egypt or were slaves there.
There is zero evidence that over a million people set up camps anywhere in the Sinai desert, including all the place mentioned in the Bible.
The Bible claims that the Hebrews conquered the Canaanites after emerging from the desert. But all archeological evidence shows that the Hebrews were Canaanites.
"Many of the sites in the story were not inhabited at that time so there was no sign of destruction. Instead, local kings paid tribute to foreign kings in exchange for protection. This is why most villages were unfortified including Jericho, which has been thoroughly excavated and had no walls that could be considered fortifications."
I can keep going...
These are the findings of actual archeologists, Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, and others.
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.