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From: mat@hou4b.UUCP (Mark Terribile)
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Subject: Re: Who rose from the dead?
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 16:32:30 EST
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>>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either does any other historical document.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

	. . .

>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

An article in National Geographic a couple of years ago (Dec 82, I think)
pointed out that the account in Exodus explains Moses leading his people
into the desert rather than along the coast to avoid running into the
Egyptians again.  This puzzled Biblical scholars AND archeologists ...
who were the Jews going to run into?  The article then described the finding
of Egyptian fortresses along the coastal route -- fortresses that would
have had large armed garrisons.  JUST EXACTLY THE REASON THAT MOSES LED
HIS FOLLOWERS INTO THE DESERT!

The Bible (both Jewish and as ammended by Christians) represents the most
studied, researched and preserved work of mankind.  It should not be surprising
that those events for which evidence is discovered are eventually found to
have been described correctly.

The preservation of the Jewish Bible and the cultural integrity of Judaism
through several millenia is one of the wonders of history.  Where are the
Romans of Imperial Rome -- where are their writings?  Where are the writings
from the interior of Africa?  Only in India and regions of China do we
find anything near the cultural continuity and preservation.

What about the earlier accounts in the Bible ... the ones that could be
considered ``myth''?  Many of them (like the Flood) ARE paralled by religious
accounts of other peoples who lived in the middle east.  And the Creation
account?  It is (so far as I know) unlike any other.  It gives us God creating
``space'', then E/M radiation, then the earth ... .  I would be interested
in knowing (if anyone knows) what the Parsi (Zarathustrians) writings say
about the Creation.

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