Independent Historical Corroboration for Biblical Events

MeRespectfully, you are plain wrong.There are actaully TWO ways to do it:1. Take it with pinches of salt when you can't believe itor2. Take it literally and believe that when it sounds like a bizaree event the Bible is, indeed, discussing a bizaree event.

^I was just being a smart alec and responding to your somewhat pompous sounding 'this is the way to do it'. There simply are two ways to do it.Christ's parables were clearly parables. The writer of Hebrews praises David's, Moses', Abraham's and Noah's deeds but not those of any characters of the parables! That arguement could be won by a grade six student in a primary school debate. Genesis clearly aims to describe the origin of things and a world wide flood that deluged the world.We have a book claiming quite openly to be the revelation of God to man. Why not believe creation and the flood if one can belive in the resurrection of Christ?If Christ was really raised we live in a very differnt world than the one a real evolutionst believes in. This world is one with the Triune God who raised his son who died on a cross for the sake of mankind. Why should Christians doubt the flood? It is utterly, utterly ludicrous IMO.

MooseThe continual claim here doubting the faithfulness of the transcriptions and translations of Scripture fly in the face of learned mainstream discourse on the subject. You all simply pretend that the Scriptures bear no resemblance to those that David would have read. You are completely wrong on that subject.And the fact that you wont even acknolweldge that we say that the marine innundations world wide are the flood proves that you are not participating in helful discussion. You know our POV.

^We all know that due to erosion it is a major headache to try and reconstruct the geology of any area. Even when it is done one can never be sure.We can be far more sure that what we read in Scripture today is pretty much what David was reading becasue of the obsession with histroy and genealogy that the Jews/Hebrews had.