(May 5, 2015 at 9:47 pm)Polaris Wrote: Because I believe in my faith. There are theists who will try and find evidence to disprove the existence of a faith, but that can't honestly be done under scientific theory. Sure, it's probably easier to disprove that Jesus was not based off the Horus myth we have now, but that can still get shaky.
Why do you think that faith is a virtue? How is faith different from gullibility?
True, the Jesus myth is quite dissimilar to the Horus myth. But there are other pre-Christian mythical characters that are more similar.
Quote:The Bible is actually quite historically accurate. It basically was a poorly written thesis paper based upon the Annals of the Kings of Judah and Israel (for the post 1200 BCE events).
Historically accurate, except when it's not.
I can fill a page with the historical inaccuracies in the Bible.
The fact that the Bible has some historical accuracies is not a surprise. But the fact that it contains some historical accuracies does not lend a shred of credence to any of the supernatural stories. Almost every document of the time was a mixture or natural and supernatural stories.
Quote:The so what was I actually used it to get a good grade on a history exam in a college course taught by an atheist. I just took out the religious explanations the Biblical authors attributed to the events referenced in those two works.
No one, not even your atheist professor, claims that the Bible does not contain some historical accuracies.
Once again, does the fact that Homer's Iliad and Odyssey contain some historical accuracies (verified by archaeology, geology, comparison to other texts) give any credence to any of the supernatural stories contained in them?
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You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
