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Old 07-31-2013, 12:10 PM   #301
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The OT and NT are fictions start to finish. Was Clark Kent Superman and a refugee from the dying planet of Krypton? Uh, no. That is a comic book story and no more believable than the sacred books of ancient history.

That is simply unsubstantiated.
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The OT and NT are fictions start to finish. Was Clark Kent Superman and a refugee from the dying planet of Krypton? Uh, no. That is a comic book story and no more believable than the sacred books of ancient history.

That is simply unsubstantiated.
The default position is always fiction. The case has never been made for the veracity of religious claims.
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