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Originally Posted by FlamingZword
If the Bible is accurate concerning natural historical events and items then what makes you think it is inaccurate regarding supernatural events?
If it is reliable telling us earthly things, why should it not be also reliable telling us of heavenly things?
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If the Koran is accurate concerning natural historical events and items, then what makes you think it is inaccurate regarding its supernatural events?
If the Book of Moron is accurate concerning natural historical events, then what makes you think it is inaccurate regarding
its supernatural events?
We have much better and verifiable evidence that the historical narrative of Book of Mormon is reasonably accurate. We even have physical remnants of the Handcart Migration--people who really, really believed that Joe Smith quoted God and Moroni accurately. But (most) archeologists today say the Exodus (IN THE MANNER REPORTED IN OT) probably did not happen due to evidence that should be there if it happened, but isn't. That is not to say some (even many) other events IN OT are not historically true. But so what? Fundy christians have to maintain it's ALL true, both the supernatural and the natural narrative, whereas I only have to see that any part of it is false. At that point, the "inerrancy" doctrine of the bible (as taught by christians) collapses, at least in the context of REASON. Of course, reason is quite different from the realm of faith--which is itself (to the those using strict reason) discredited considering the Muslims, Mormons, Pagans, Jews, Catholics all have their brand of faith--and all amount to merely different set of (essentially silly) CLAIMS-- none of it successfully standing up against the close scrutiny of reason and/or science.
Probably most of the "natural" events in the bible did have an actual core event that triggered simple human exaggeration. That makes for interesting reading, but stories (especially stories wishing to enforce RELIGIOUS agendas) are NORMALLY embellished, as well as made up ever since religion evolved. That's what the bible is--history embellished (fictionalized) and put at the service of religious agenda.
But how do I know that all of the
supernatural parts of Holy Babble are false? Easy--"That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
