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09-11-2007, 07:26 PM #1Senior Member
Argument made by religious people that just isn't valid
Originally Posted by miley
The history of thucydides {460-400 BC} is available to us from only 8 manuscripts dated about AD 900 almost thirteen hundred years after he wrote it.
The manuscripts of the history of Herodotus are likewise late and scarce. And yet ,as F.F.Bruce, Rylands Professer of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester, concludes," No classical scholar would listen to an argument that the authenticity of Herodotus or Thucydides is in doubt because the earlist manuscripts of there works which are of use to us are over 1,300 years later then the originals.
The quantity of the new testment matarial is almost embarrassing in comparison with other works of antiquity.
We have over 5,600 greek manuscripts of the bible. The whole being written before the fall of jerusalam in A.D. 70.jdmarcus59 Reviewed by jdmarcus59 on . Argument made by religious people that just isn't valid A lot of people justify their belief in a certain religion by claiming that there is basically no difference between believing in religious texts and believing in commonly accepted historical texts. They'll say something like, "What's the difference between believing in the Bible and believing all the written accounts of the Civil War, for example? You choose to believe those accounts, even though you weren't actually there, just like I choose to believe in the Bible even though I wasn't Rating: 5walk this earth to search and find.
and if you find the truth dont hide.
for this may be your last day to try.
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