A moral and ethical question for theists

[Redbeard The Pink]

But how do you determine that one part is real while other parts aren't?!? Is it just acceptance of what's spoon fed to you or is there some actual process?

The stories in the OT sound very bizarre to me, and were written thousands of years ago when writing style could very possibly be different. So it would make sense to believe they are not historically accurate. Especially the story of Genesis, of which there is evidence that proves it's impossible it could have happened literally as it is written.

OK, let me stop you right here. You need to realize something.


The stories in the New Testament sound very bizarre to me, and were written thousands of years ago when writing style could very possibly be different. So it would make sense to believe they are not historically accurate. Especially the story of Jesus, of which there is evidence that proves it's impossible it could have happened literally as it is written.


I only had to change two parts of that text, and the same things are still true about it. How do you justify the belief that the New Testament is more true than the Old Testament when, by your own stated standards, they have approximately the same level of credibility? They both make bizarre, scientifically unlikely claims, they are both old enough to pretty much predate modern science and documentation methods entirely, and there is evidence to suggest that they both contain grossly inaccurate history.



Somewhere around here somebody mentioned the "fact" that archaeology seems to support what the Bible says. This is simply not true. For one thing, there is no archaeological evidence whatsoever to support the Jews being enslaved in nor exiled from Egypt, nor to suggest that they wandered the deserts anywhere near Egypt for 40 years. There is no fossil or rock evidence to suggest a massive, global flood. There is no archaeological evidence to support the existence of a town called Nazareth anywhere in the WORLD during the time Jesus is supposed to have been growing up there. There is a site that christians are claiming is Nazareth, but every piece of evidence that does turn up there turns out to be either forged or from a much later time period when reviewed by mainstream researchers.