Diogenes the Cynic

Pretty much every historical claim made in the Pentateuch, for a start. Hitting some highlights, there was no Garden, no flood, no Patriarchs, no enslavement in Egypt, no Moses, no Exodus, no Israelite conquest of Canaan and no United Kingdom of David and Solomon. Consider yourself educated.

Sheshonq

1. Moderators should start a new thread, to keep you from deliberately derailing this one.

2. Huge portions of the bible have been discredited by archaeology. In fact, archaeology is probably one of the strongest enemies of the fundamentalist point of view.

If that were the case, you'd read the posts that people have been making, instead of skipping them and asking the same questions over and over.

You are here to preach - nothing else.

Sheshonq

1. In what subject area?

2. What exactly does "studied graduate level research" mean? Were you a grad student yourself? Or did you just read the work of graduate level material, and somehow this constitutes "studied research" in your mind?

Glad you brought that up. When do you plan to produce any proof for your claims?

Did you think that we had forgotten that you skipped that very big step?

juergen

There were some good threads about this in the past if you search iidb.

Sheshonq

Two problems:

1. that requires work
2. it interferes with preaching

I wouldn't get your hopes up.

juergen

Yeah.

I guess it could be seen as a challenge.

If someone's interested in finding out what's out there, it would be the easiest way to get started.

OTOH, if someone's just interested in trying to find weaknesses in an opponent's POV without actually wanting to learn anything about the subject in question, then that would become quickly apparent.

My first reaction tells me it's the latter, but since he said that he's willing to be educated...

Amaleq13

I have to agree that there is nothing "geological" about this "standpoint" but I would also point out that it has no connection to the post to which it is supposedly a response (ie non sequitur)

I encourage you to use the search function. There have been several threads along those lines in the past.

arnoldo

I guess the fact that the State of Israel exists this very moment is only the result of political actions and not due to the Abrahamic promise.

Sheshonq

What part of "stay on topic" do you not understand?

Diogenes the Cynic

As incredible as it may seem to you, that is, in fact, the case.

This is another topic, though. There are plenty of searchable threads in this forum regarding archaeological evidence (or lack therof) for the hsitorical claims of the Bible.