WILLOWTREE

Christianity's worst enemies; Jesus Seminar, Burton L. Mack admit Jesus lived.

This makes Thompson a crank pandering to the ordinary atheist masses.

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Celsus

*cough*

Argument from authority aside, perhaps you'd like to demonstrate how a Catholic scholar like Thompson is pandering to atheist masses, as well as share what bits of Thompson you've read that support your assertion?

Joel

WILLOWTREE

Hi Celsus:

How many Near East kingdoms recorded a victory via an inscripition (or other) during the alleged reign of Biblical David ?

WT

Celsus

Probably more than we have found to date.

Joel

WILLOWTREE

If there was just ONE you would of posted it.

WT

Celsus

Or perhaps I know when I shouldn't be wasting my time.

Joel

WILLOWTREE

The total silence of any heathen nation recording a victory during David's reign (1018 - 978 BC) corroborates the Biblical claim that he reigned from Egypt to the Euphrates.

The fact that the Bible records the defeats of its subject unlike any other Near East nation speaks volumes as to its honesty.

WT

WILLOWTREE

Bump for Celsus.

Me thinks you are on a mad scavenger hunt trying to find ONE piece of evidence refuting my claim.

Let me give you a hint: (Velikovsky) but it wasn't during David's reign

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Jack the Bodiless

Or maybe there were simply no major wars fought during this 40-year period.

Do you have ANY real evidence that ANYONE fought a war in this period?

Without wars, David couldn't have his empire.
The Hebrews had a special theological problem: they were surrounded by more powerful neighbors that kept conquering them rather easily. Their own tribal deity seemed powerless. So the priesthood had to pretend that YHWH deliberately let them be conquered.

They also probably compensated by inventing nonexistent victories for YHWH during the mythical "conquest of Caanan".

WILLOWTREE

The Bible says there was.

This evidence is completely ignored because of worldview hatred/bias.

This confirms my allegation above.

By saying, "real evidence" you are capriciously declaring the Bible is not evidence. This is done because of your worldview and its goal to urinate on the Bible and its God.

IOW, your defintion of evidence qualifies only that which supports your assumptions.

The rejection of Bible as evidence is necessary by atheists.

Show me any evidence that allegedly disproves a Biblical claim and I will show you that the evidence is based on atheistic assumptions = conclusions pre-determined.

This is why atheists call themselves christians now (Jesus Seminar) in order to silence the invulnerable criticism that their worldview is concluding.

It fools no one in reality, except society must suffer this vocal minority via their philosophic friends in the media who promote pseudo atheist scholarship as settled fact. All polls indicate the Bible is unscathed by this fraud in that 90 plus percent of ordinary Americans beliveve in the Biblical God and the veracity of the Bible.

WT