Granny Magda writes:
Which bits of the Ilaid do you find most plausible?
I feel that the parts that have people the most realistic (although they wouldn't make long speeches while fighting, like they do in the book).
However, the Iliad is never said to be true, and we found out that it was. With the Bible, however, either it is true or it isn't. You can't take only part of the Bible as divine and the other parts human. If you did that, you might as well take the entire Bible only the work of humans, not inspired by God.
So, theoretically, if you prove one part of the Bible is true (the Exodus, for example), you thereby prove the entire Bible... technically.
So your way of grading different parts of the Bible as plausible or fake is wrong, because the Bible is simply either plausible or fake. You can't say 'Well, Genesis 1 and 2 is wrong because they have God directly interacting with humans. Then, until Genesis 5, it is correct, or plausible. But then, you have the Flood, which is God directly affecting the earth, so that's fake, then you get to...'
The Bible has to be 'graded' as a whole.
P.S. The version of the Iliad you've quoted from is from way after the Iliad is actually written. That version uses the Roman names, like Neptune, Jupiter, Venus, and Mars (Apollo is the same in both Greek and Roman religion) This isn't bad, but I prefer the actual Greek version with their gods names, such as Poseidon, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Ares.
Iesous
Christos
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Theos
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Uios
Soter
Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.