ChristianPatriot
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In religion, true belief is based on faith, right?
No.
In religion, true belief is based on faith, right?
In an intellectually honest person's mental toolbox are many tools. That one does not require the socket wrench of science, but the screwdriver of history. Try looking in the 900s, not the 500s.Ok. Scientifically prove that George Washington was the first President.
In an intellectually honest person's mental toolbox are many tools. That one does not require the socket wrench of science, but the screwdriver of history. Try looking in the 900s, not the 500s.
History is only as useful as the honesty of those writing it. I suppose you can apply the science of psychology to lying historians, but then you run into the mathematics of statistics and have to gauge the probability that all of those period historians would lie about the exact same thing in the exact same way. And then there's the mundane fact of the office of the Presidency, which we know exists and we know how it's supposed to function. Being that human beings are discrete phenomena, we can list all those who ever occupied the office and then run that list backwards until we have no more individual humanoid carbon units to add to that list and declare that, in all probability, we had discovered the first.
The Bible is a book of history. Written by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of other eyewitnesses. Everything was falsifiable at the time it was written. Everything written in the gospels for example could've easily been proven wrong at the times they were written because people were still alive who lived through it. If I said, Obama only served one term you'd say well that's not true, I was there, and you'd be right. All of that was possible when the 66 books of the Bible were written.
Were drafts emailed around to fact check?
No sir, thousands of people who were actually there read what was written and would've easily been able to say it was false.
In my personal philosophy?
Disagree.
I think that the "big bang" event that led to our observable "universe" was probably just one of an infinite number of such events, if you scale back far enough and look over a broad enough period of time.
No sir, thousands of people who were actually there read what was written and would've easily been able to say it was false.
And did. They are called Jews.
The Bible is a book of history. Written by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of other eyewitnesses. Everything was falsifiable at the time it was written. Everything written in the gospels for example could've easily been proven wrong at the times they were written because people were still alive who lived through it. If I said, Obama only served one term you'd say well that's not true, I was there, and you'd be right. All of that was possible when the 66 books of the Bible were written.
Think about that from a purely logistical standpoint... 2000 years ago, how long from draft to distribution?
Ok, in Christianity true belief based on faith, right?
Not to mention the muliple translations that have taken place by various people. I firmly believe the Bible, but thought that might be worth mentioning
I cannot answer your question any more than I can explain how purple sounds.
It's not like the phone game. The NIV doesn't translate from the NKJV which translated from the KJV. We still have 6,000 manuscripts and portions of manuscripts that were written within a generation of the originals. We can still go back to the originals.