Family Man

No, that isn't what he meant. When discussing events of ancient history, the questions that have to be asked is how plausible is the claim and how well-supported it is. Alexander conquering the Persian empire is a plausible story, and we have considerable evidence that this happened through archealogy and the fact that Alexander is mentioned in stories written by the cultures he warred against. The Exodus story, however, is not plausible nor does it have any support for it. What does your friend think God did, erase all the evidence?

The bottom line is, if your friend isn't going to play by the rules of historical interpretation, then there is really not much point in debating him.

Peter Kirby

This is very close. It was a generic 'you'. If a person doesn't accept and use plausibility or external sources, I don't know of any other method for that person to falsify something or accept it as shown wrong.

If it is helpful to you, there is a magazine called The Skeptical Review that has a lot of material about showing errors in the Bible.

You might ask him to show an error in the Catholic Deuterocanon (Apocrypha), the Histories of Herodotus, or the Bhagavad Gita in order to see what he finds acceptable as falsification...or to find out that he will set the bar in the stratosphere so that everything in the Bible can squeeze through.

best,
Peter Kirby