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Originally Posted by Robbie
Mutt, I can only go by what a true scholar who spent 43 years in serious study of it said.
No offense, but you and I are just a couple of guys on a porn message board. That guy is probably the greatest expert in the world on Josephus.
None of it really matters. Like I said, in the end we are talking about very primitive people and their superstitions.
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I've read all the arguments by all the scholars, there's no way of knowing what really happened in 1400BC or 33AD. Which is frustrating because it's such important history. I don't believe in any of the divinely orchestrated happenings in either of the old or new testaments but I am fascinated in how it all came to be and how much of the non-supernatural parts of the bibles were based on real people and real events. There is no other source for the history of ancient Israel than the scriptures. Even the most atheistic of archeologists use the Bible as their starting point because there simply isn't anything else other than some references to the Israelites in artifacts found in surrounding countries.
That it was so long ago and there being no way to really invalidate any of it is what allows people to suspend their disbelief.
The staying power of these religions boggles my mind. I don't understand the word 'faith', people who say they have faith that the Bible is the truth, to me you either believe or you don't.