RE: Why Creationists don't realize the biblical Creation is just jewish mythology?
July 22, 2019 at 11:37 am
(July 22, 2019 at 4:30 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: ... there is no archeological evidence that any of the events described in Old Testament happened.
I wouldn't go quite so far as that. Certainly there is vast evidence that special creation didn't happen; there is zero evidence for Moses or the Exodus, etc. It is fair to say that there is zero archeological and often zero historical evidence for most of the events and persons in the Bible. Real historical characters are mentioned, but that is no more meaningful than that historical characters are mentioned in any work of fiction as a backdrop for alleged events.
Still, there was a nation of Israel and a temple and various tribes and some of the ancient kings of Israel are believed to have actually existed by independent secular scholars, most notably David, although he was probably king only of Judah, not the whole of Israel. The main problem with the Bible is all the fabulist mythos-building going on, such that it's almost irrelevant that there's some legitimate historical backdrop. It's like taking the real people in your own family and ascribing fantastical deeds to them. It's not like anyone will actually get to know your family in any meaningful sense, just because they actually existed and you used their names in your account.
