Patriarch Verlch

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a026.html

Here are some interesting physical examples of physical truth in the bible. Why then would the bible not be accurate on the spiritual side of it?

There have been examples of the House of David, cities of Jericho and facts that its walls fell away from city and not inward.

Goliath the Philistine has been found written in stone.

If the bible is written on false premise, why are archaeological facts true? Why is the bible used by Archaeologists to find things in the earth? Seems like a lot of work, to put a book of fiction in circulation of the earth, that men are willing to die for.

This website reminds me of a quote:

uncool

Moscow is in Russia.
Brazil is in South America.
India is south of Kazakhstan.
There are 7 known continents.
Christianity is wrong.
Hey look, there's so much physical evidence for it, why not accept the spiritual part of it!
=Uncool=

RUmike

That quote is much more appropriate for EoG or GRD, not BC&H.

Toto

That's too easy. There are many works of fiction with "physical truths" that are still works of ficiton.

Not exactly. There is one archeological reference to the House of David, although some doubters discredit it. There is no archeological evidence that supports the Exodus or any of the historical claims of conquest.

Something of an exaggeration.

Hm, what other works have people died for? The Qur'an? The Communist Manifesto? The Sayings of Marshall Applewhite? How can they all be true?

Patriarch Verich: We discourage posters from speculating about the motives for others' beliefs, since that speculation is so often wrong or merely insulting. Some people might actually want God to exist, but have painfully concluded that there is no evidence of a god, especially in the Bible.

And surely you can do better than a quote from freerepublic.com?

fromdownunder

I am pretty certain that there was an American Civil War and that the South lost. So Gone with the Wind is true. Should I therefore start looking for evidence of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler?

Why are there so many things in the bible that archaologists, historians and scientists have looked for and not found evidence for? The flood, the Ark, the exodus, Jesus tomb, the 4BCE census, etc. etc.


Uummm.. Jonestown, David Koresh, Heaven's Gate, Kamikaze pilots in WW2, to name some.

Norm

Haran

Heh...go read Patriarch's blog (it's not hard to find). Why waste the time responding? I don't think he'll be convinced of anything anytime soon.

Patriarch Verlch

The flood? Really? Did you miss the fact that the earth is 75% water? Where did all that water come from? Comets? Remember that comet space ship that collected data from the comet it landed on. Has that been analyzed? What else can account for all this water, unless it was created by a higher power?

Fossil life high on Mt. Everest. Extinct dinosaurs, you say meteorite, or asteroid, I say global flood. Lot's of comparisons and loads of angles.

Anat

75% of the earth's surface is covered with water. Most of the earth is made of other stuff, which is why volcanos spout lava and not water. Even if all the polar caps and glaciers melted there won't be enough water to submerge most mountains. The fossils of marine organisms that are found occasionally on high mountains are evidence for the mountains' rise by tectonic forces.

yummyfur

70-75% of the surface of the earth is coverd by water. But it is a very shallow covering compared to the total thickenss of the earth. There is about 337 cubic miles of water on earth, so it only makes up .04% of the earth's mass. Ergo the earth is only .04% water. Since Oxygen is one of main elemental constituents of the earth, and there is also enough Hydrogen to explain easily how such a small amount of water was created by the earth's formation, no need for some half assed crazy comet theory.

Kosh

Well, since we're going to pay attention to archaeology....

If there was a Great Flood (tm), then why didn't the Egyptians notice it? Why does their history/timeline continue right through Bishop Ushers calculated date (~2500 BC) for the flood? Why do the Egyptians just continue on building pyramids after the flood was supposed to have wiped them out? And what about the Chinese? Why does their history extend back before the creation of the Earth according to the Bible?


Maybe you can explain all that to us?