There is no such thing as The Bible

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assuming an ancient document to be true until proven otherwise, good historians do that all the time.

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turns to historian lying on the sofaShe gave me a really long answer but it basically broke down to "no" - everything is context, the document may have an internal reality but that does not apply that it is "true" in terms of the wider reality.(Damn she doesn't seem to want to stop...... god I'm going to have this for hours and hours....Now she has asked "what documents?" and I said "oh bibical type stuff", this has caused her to leaped off the sofa and made some noises that I'm not sure that a female scholar should make but were rather negative.....)

Hah - she's STILL at it, you were lucky that post was as coherent as it was.(I'm currently getting a lecture about the political divide between french and flemish speakers and how that affected record keeping and thus historical perspectives in 20c europe..please..please..make it stop...)This message has been edited by CK, 11-Sep-2005 07:18 PM

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I think it's healthier to question authority, find out what's behind it, to make sure it is the real thing, than just go along with it without knowing why you are.

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Thus describing most of the atheists on here