Indoctrination & Mental Gymnastics

[robvalue]

That is the key point, the difference between a fact and a claim. Even if we knew 100% that every word in the bible was how it was written originally, it is still just a claim about what happened. At best it tells you what the people writing it believed happened. Anyone can write anything, it doesn't make it true. And just because it was written a long time ago, that doesn't make it any more likely to be true. Less likely if anything.

So I really don't care who wrote what and when. There needs to be a mammoth amount of supporting independent evidence to even consider that the supernatural type stuff in the bible actually happened. And there isn't. There's barely enough to establish basic details in the bible let alone fantastical claims.

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So I would say anyone who just believes anything the bible says, at face value, either has extremely low standards of evidence and would believe anything, or else has already decided for another reason that the bible is true.