(December 2, 2014 at 10:08 am)abaris Wrote: The bible on the other hand is an account, likely a collection or oral tales of the time, that set out to be the truth.Maybe, but I do not know that for sure. Especially some of the prose. It may be that some were based on oral history and embellished over the years. Supernatural explanations for natural occurrences and the like.
40 years in a desert? The Sahara is 5000km long and at 5 clicks a day, it would only take three years.
Maybe some were fiction and possibly some stories were not. Still, the point was that the babble-book is probably littered with facts, but that would not in and of itself prove any of the stories are real.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy