An unorthodox belief in God.

[SteelCurtain]

---

This analogy has been used before, but I don't remember you addressing it, so I'll pose it to you again. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey contain references to historical events, people, and places. Does this lend any validity to the god claims contained within those texts? Does the fact that Homer sometimes accurately portrayed historical events in his epics mean anything about the existence or nonexistence of Zeus, Hera, Demeter, or Poseidon?

If not, then why is the Bible held to a different standard?

---

You're comparison is illusion , an attempt to deflect or disarm what I am doing. I am giving real biblical characters and events in our history, and the professional archaeology that confirms it. Greek gods and their mythical places are illusions, no professional has uncovered evidence of them. In judges 7:1 Gideon had a cave, we have that cave now; its no myth and no game; Its simply a real standard;

http://www.gemsinisrael.com/e_article000002707.htm

*Your

What? Is your head really that far stuck up your own ass? Are you saying that the city of Troy is an illusion? Are you saying that the Trojan War is completely a fabrication of people wishing to... do what exactly? These are real events (even if the records of said events were exaggerated), real places, and real people that actually existed, with archaeological evidence. The real kind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy

http://archive.archaeology.org/0405/etc/troy.html

According to the archaeological and historical findings of the past decade especially, it is now more likely than not that there were several armed conflicts in and around Troy at the end of the Late Bronze Age. At present we do not know whether all or some of these conflicts were distilled in later memory into the "Trojan War" or whether among them there was an especially memorable, single "Trojan War." However, everything currently suggests that Homer should be taken seriously, that his story of a military conflict between Greeks and the inhabitants of Troy is based on a memory of historical events--whatever these may have been. If someone came up to me at the excavation one day and expressed his or her belief that the Trojan War did indeed happen here, my response as an archaeologist working at Troy would be: Why not?