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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
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Subject: Re: Evidences for Religion
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Date: Sat, 1-Jun-85 21:12:41 EDT
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> 		    Reliability of The New Testament
> 
>  It is true that Christianity views the bible as God's revealed word
>  to mankind. Those who oppose this view object that the biblical
>  account can not be deemed reliable. It is argued that the accounts
>  would become distorted during their textual transmission.
> 
>  However, it can be shown that the New Testament documents are the most
>  reliable of all historical documents; and to reject the New Testament
>  records without rejecting all other historical documents and regarding
>  them unreliable, would be to act in utter bias and absurdity.

This is incorrect. You are confusing historical accuracy with consistency
of the historical record. An example of this would be an historian
of the future finding a nazi propaganda movie intact in a vault say,
and deducing the role nazis played, in that era's history, from it.

I note with interest that you refer to The Histories by Herodetus in your
article. You should read it to gain some insight into what was understood
as "history" back then, and compare it to what we now understand by it.
Herodetus was known as the "father of lies".

Padraig Houlahan.