(June 27, 2014 at 9:30 am)ignoramus Wrote: Guys, I really enjoy reading posts which dissect contents of the bible and analyse , scrutinize and find discrepancies.
Let's take away the sky daddy bits and all the morality and parables, etc.
What is left?
As a historical body of text, has it provided any historical or scientific information which is generally considered "fact" due to the empirical evidence noted in it, which cannot be validated by other writings of the time.
Eg: social migration, spread of ethnicities, topological accuracies, technologies of the period, etc.
This alone should give the bible "some" merit, albeit for all the wrong reasons for those who consider it sacred.
Thoughts?
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'merit'. Does having merit simply mean "Not everything in the book is false"?
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
