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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Who rose from the dead?
Message-ID: <1844@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 05:32:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 05:32:28 1984
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In article <289@qantel.UUCP> ken@qantel.UUCP (Ken Nichols@ex6193) writes:

>Most of human history is written down in documents.  I guess we can't believe
>any of those documents either.  So we must not know anything about history.  Why
>study it then?  Why try to learn from past mistakes in history?  It could all
>be a lie.
>
>As far as I know, the Bible is the most historicaly acurate, and well documented
>books on the earth.  If it doesn't have any credibility, then either does any 
>other historical document.

One MAJOR problem is the there is no real corrborating evidence for the
Bible. In most circumstance you can find multiple independent versions of
the same story in history, or in latter history there will be newspaper
accounts, film, radio, TV or even Usenet articles that allow researchers to
attempt to piece together an unbiased and objective account. In the case of
the Bible, all you have is the Bible-- there is no corroborating proof that
helps prove its objectivity except the faith of those who believe it. Which
doesn't, of course, make it wrong, just harder to PROVE it is right.

I've been studying the Greek and Roman pantheons recently. I find it
interesting that for every major myth in those pantheons we can find at
least two and sometimes half a dozen authors that tell that story
including scholars such as Ovid, Virgil, Euripedes, etc... That tells me
that there is a MUCH greater chance for the Greek myths to be unbiased
truth than the Bible. Anyone want to go sacrifice a lamb? (This, BTW, is a
joke. An honest to GLOS joke. Please don't take this seriously. much)

chuq
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From the Department of Bistromatics:                   Chuq Von Rospach
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  I'd know those eyes from a million years away....