Like any other mythology, the mundane events recorded in the Bible were most likely at least grounded in reality.
Bible as mythology (= Atheism ideology).
We do have examples of kings and so on mentioned in the Bible and corroborated by external, unrelated sources. It's even one of the methodologies used to date the events in teh Bible.
Very true. We have a ton of evidence corroborating the Bible.
It's the extraordinary claims where the Bible breaks down. Fundamentalists typically use examples of historically accurate parts of the bible to claim that the Bible in its entirety is a historically valid set of documents, and this is plainly silly.
This comment brands anyone a Fundamentalist who accepts the Textual evidence. It is important to remind that Fundamentalists, like their Atheist counterparts on the other side of the street, accept the extraordinary claim of microevolution. This renders both sides of Fundamentalism opposing Genesis, which, of course, unlike Darwinism, advocates Divine power operating in reality causing species to exist.
I support Obama for President, support abortion except third trimester, reject death penalty, and I accept the Textual evidence of Genesis corresponding to scientific reality. Most people are not Fundamentalists who accept science.
It is also completely valid to say other parts of Scripture is valid based on other parts of Scripture. Darwinism employs the same logic. We have no idea what happened hundreds of millions of years ago, but evolutionists
extrapolate and assume, based on said extrapolationism, that we do know what occurred hundreds of millions of years ago.
The point, though, is that on the whole the Bible makes a rather unimpressive historical document because it records such things as 6-day Creationism of the global Flood that are wholly contradicted by multiple fields of science, as well as stories like the Exodus or the Tower of Babel where no archeological or anthropological evidence is ever found to corroborate the stories even where such evidence should be found.
Science has always confirmed. Only Darwinian "science" denies.
In their completely biased predetermined conclusions from blind, unbreakable faith, fundamentalists forget the most basic facts regarding evidence of any sort: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Darwinists are equally guilty of ignoring reality and faithfully holding on to their pro-Atheism ideology known as evolution. Since all Atheists are evolutionists, evolution is Atheism religion. We could only wonder as to the extraordinary evidence for apes evolving into humans and animals possessing magical powers to change into another animal?
But when the Bible claims the world was Flooded and repopulated in its entirety by the contents of a rather small wooden boat, or that millions of Jewish slaves escaped Egypt amidst myriad plagues including the sudden unexplainable death of every first-born child in the nation, and there is absolutely no evidence to support those claims, there is no more reason to believe them than to believe that Achilles was a literally invincible warrior and that the Illiad was a "historical account" simply because Troy was a real city.
No one expects Atheists to acknowledge evidence that says their worldview is false.
Scholars have always known that evolution is false and that the Bible and its major claims are true. They have had to break the news gently concerning evolution. But beginning in 1996 scholars have decided to abandon the gentle approach.
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