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I didn't say we don't have any manuscripts of the gallic wars, I'm saying we have few, and that they are much later then the event.
And you are wrong, as Caesar's personal account proves.
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The Caesar's account of the gallic wars we have is not the copy Caesar himself wrote,
What do you want? An autographed copy in Caesar's own hand? Maybe an personal inscription? "To my dear friend Brutus, hope you enjoy the book, I trust you will always be watching my back..."
Do you put the Bible to so extreme a test?
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it is a transcripted copy from copy from a copy ... from the original.
Just like the Bible, except that there is no doubt that in the case of Caesar's account of the Gallic wars that Caesar was in fact the author. There is, at the most generous assessment, grave doubt that traditional attributions for the books of the Bible are correct.
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May I ask how do you know it isn't true ?
Because the writings from Roman antiquity provide multiple sources confirming events like the Gallic conquest. These events are also confirmed by archaeology. Many of the events depicted in the Bible simply do not have the same backing. I'm sorry, but that is simply a fact. There is an copious evidence that Caesar was a real person, from coins and monuments to writings by those, like Cicero, who knew him first hand.
The same cannot be said of Moses, who only seems to exist in the Bible.
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Besides, the OT remained the same to about 99,9% from the dead sea scrolls up to our current day bible. Why couldn't the Jews achieve similar transcription accuracy ?
I'm not casting doubt on the transcription methods. You can transcribe a fairy story as accurately as you like, it won't make it true.
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"The Bible is like a person, and if you torture it long enough, you can get it to say almost anything you'd like it to say." -- Rev. Dr. Francis H. Wade