(June 20, 2012 at 1:33 am)gomtuu77 Wrote: What have you READ that has given rise to your rejection of the Bible's general historical reliability and authenticity?
Curious...
It really doesn't matter how modern apologists spin it, there is still a complete lack of contemporaneous accounts of Jesus.
Here's a question for you.
According to the Bible, at the time of he Crucifixion, the sun went black for 3 hours.
Why was this terrorizing event not recorded by a single other culture in the eastern hemisphere?
There were many cultures that were more literate than Palestine, China for example (they recorded Halley's comet in 613 bce), that recorded every single celestial event they saw. Yet not a single record of an event this momentous? Really?!
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.