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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Religion is Religion, not history
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Date: Sun, 25-Nov-84 22:59:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 25 22:59:20 1984
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Summary: 

>>> = Ken Nichols
>>  = Rich Kulawiec
>   = Jeff Sargent

>>> Are you trying to say that it's possible that the writers of the Bible got
>>> together and concocted this scheme to deceive millions of people?

>> Sure, why not?

>What on earth would it gain them?  If the early Christians had been like some
>of the medieval Popes, I might doubt as you do.  But I really doubt that they
>would have sacrificed their lives for something they knew to be a lie.  Surely
>the persecution of Christians is documented in non-Christian history.

Why did Jim Jones make the claims he did?  He died "for" them too.  Perhaps
if people were able to see the future, your argument might make sense.  I
guess that you "sheep" don't understand the motivations of your leaders.

>Not only that, it is curious how closely archaeological discoveries in the
>Mideast agree with Biblical passages.  Surely you're not going to claim that
>this was done by hundreds of people over hundreds of years just to put over
>an elaborate hoax?

It is curious how closely knowledge of the Civil War agrees with passages in
"Gone With The Wind".  Obviously "Gone With The Wind" was written and
transmitted by those inspired to inerrancy by God.  Otherwise we'd have to
claim that the evidence of the civil war is an elaborate hoax, right?
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh