(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?
Who cares?
I am pretty sure that there is an England - and in England there is A city of London
And yet - if you think that has merit enough to consider James Bond, or Harry Potter - Or Sherlock Holmes - or Peter Pan real - you would be WRONG.
People writing fictional stories often include real places - real things in their stories. The question is not if there are actual real things in the story - the question is - is the rest of the story real - and there are TOO many thing over the centuries =-that were considered to be real - that turned out NOT to be real. People lost their lives over this.
The bible is nothing more than just another collection of religious Myth - equal to the Koran - the Egyptian Book of the Dead - and even the Vedas.
