RE: historical merits of the bible?
June 27, 2014 at 10:39 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2014 at 10:40 pm by ignoramus.)
Sorry for the confusion guys. I truthfully don't have the vocab to express my thoughts properly.
Ok, eg, with lord of the rings, we love it because of the creative genius of Tolkien.
He defines with great detail the world in which the story unfolds.
We love it because he's not trying to insult our intelligence. He's not trying to prove to anybody that it actually happened.
What if Tolkien had actually used a real world backdrop to tell his fantasy story.
Real countries, real mountains, real people, together with imaginary places, wizards, warlocks, goblins, the "ring", etc.
Is the bible a bit like this? Can we decifer what is real in it's time and what isn't?
If any of the backdrop to the bible story is real, eg, people, mountains, towns, etc, has any of these facts been discovered by historians or archeologists as a direct result of the text of the bible. And only because of these texts.
That's what I mean by "merit".
I'd be surprised if some merit wasn't gained from it.
If I was to write about something miraculous, and expect the reader to believe it, I'd at least set the backdrop as
real, otherwise you wouldn't get your foot in the door.
Eg2, if I wanted you to believe in a real batman or superman, I wouldn't have then living in Metropolis or Gotham city. I would start with NY and Chicago.
Ok, eg, with lord of the rings, we love it because of the creative genius of Tolkien.
He defines with great detail the world in which the story unfolds.
We love it because he's not trying to insult our intelligence. He's not trying to prove to anybody that it actually happened.
What if Tolkien had actually used a real world backdrop to tell his fantasy story.
Real countries, real mountains, real people, together with imaginary places, wizards, warlocks, goblins, the "ring", etc.
Is the bible a bit like this? Can we decifer what is real in it's time and what isn't?
If any of the backdrop to the bible story is real, eg, people, mountains, towns, etc, has any of these facts been discovered by historians or archeologists as a direct result of the text of the bible. And only because of these texts.
That's what I mean by "merit".
I'd be surprised if some merit wasn't gained from it.
If I was to write about something miraculous, and expect the reader to believe it, I'd at least set the backdrop as
real, otherwise you wouldn't get your foot in the door.
Eg2, if I wanted you to believe in a real batman or superman, I wouldn't have then living in Metropolis or Gotham city. I would start with NY and Chicago.
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