(December 21, 2014 at 12:19 pm)abaris Wrote:(December 21, 2014 at 12:13 pm)Drich Wrote: It is completely on God to provide continuity of Scripture if He certifies continuity of scripture in the book itself (which He does.) That or He must offer forgiveness for following an incomplete or book in error, or He must confirm or make changes to scripture in an authoritiave way as per the discovery of something like the Dead Sea scrolls.
See, that only works, if you're willingly accept the earth only to be some thousands years old. If you're not, and I'm certainly not willing to accept that, god would have to be one of the most lazy bastards ever to exist. Billions of years and he only bothers to make an appearance some 3000 years ago. To some half nomadic desert dwellers with no culture to speak of compared to the empires sourrounding them at the time.
Who says?
I don't believe the earth is some thousand years old.
http://atheistforums.org/thread-14190.html
Also who says he only made one appearance? Maybe this is the only one that took.