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Why do you accept the bible as inerrant historical fact?

nazz

Doubting Thomas
I've asked this in other forums and never got a satisfactory answer. And please don't just quote II Timothy 3:16. That's problematic for several reasons but it's circular reasoning anyway. Or if you do you use it I would ask why you believe that to be true.
 
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Jayhawker Soule

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Premium Member
I would not be surprised to discover that a majority of theists do not accept the bible as inerrant historical fact? Who are you asking?
 

Kilgore Trout

Misanthropic Humanist
I suspect what you're looking for as a "satisfactory answer" does not exist. Fundamentally, the answer is that factual basis is often an unimportant factor for people in determining what it is that they uphold as truth.
 

Tumah

Veteran Member
Are you being serious? If so, why do you believe your father was correct?

I am being serious. I believe my father was correct, because he heard it from his father who heard it from his father...who heard it from his father who was one of the people who went out of Egypt with Moses.
 

nazz

Doubting Thomas
I am being serious. I believe my father was correct, because he heard it from his father who heard it from his father...who heard it from his father who was one of the people who went out of Egypt with Moses.

I see. That actually makes some sense.
 

nazz

Doubting Thomas
I am being serious. I believe my father was correct, because he heard it from his father who heard it from his father...who heard it from his father who was one of the people who went out of Egypt with Moses.

But why do you think in all that time changes did not evolve?
 

Tumah

Veteran Member
But why do you think in all that time changes did not evolve?

A fair question.
I think, once my great-grand pappy testifies that his acceptance of the Bible was predicated on the revelation of G-d that he himself experienced at Sinai, it seems unlikely that G-d would provide a text and not ensure some safety-device to maintain is usefulness. Otherwise, why bother giving this text?

Anyway, I read this article a while back. If you care enough to check it out, there it is. I thought he had some good points. Although the argument for revisionism might be made (not by me though!).
 

CynthiaCypher

Well-Known Member
I am being serious. I believe my father was correct, because he heard it from his father who heard it from his father...who heard it from his father who was one of the people who went out of Egypt with Moses.

Sounds like Chinese Telephone.
 

Tumah

Veteran Member
Not a very reliable way to transmit information or to determine the truth now is it?

That might be true if there was only one Jew in every generation and it was just a statement made once, that was brought out of the noggin once a year and dusted off. But all my friends tell me they kept hearing the same thing from their fathers too. If Chinese telephone is anything like broken telephone, then the message at the end is supposed to be different not the same.
 
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