(December 20, 2014 at 4:47 am)robvalue Wrote: How can you be a literalist anyway? They believe even forgeries are the word of God?
I guess they argue that God put in the forgeries, or something. Or there are no forgeries.
It's one of those vicious circle things.
They believe they are right and that the Bible is provably true. This means they have to reject any science that says otherwise. This means they have to re-write history to keep a 100% success rate on Biblical prophesies. Also, this is part of why it's important that the OT was written in 1,500 BCE instead of 700 BCE; prophesies are a lot less compelling when they're written after the events which they predict.