Well, but that's how I read it, and that's how it is taken by all the people I trust and admire, and that's how it has been taken throughout history. You've simply made it impossible to recognize the truth with all that studying you do about it.
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and you don't think it's a problem that this notion of truth disappears when you look closer? that's like the "squint your eyes a little, and you'll see it" proof of intelligent design.
Disappears? It gets clearer and stronger. Take off the blinders of the "scholarship" you are so addicted to. It isn't the truth. It's a big fat bunch of worldly fleshly hoohah.
What is it that makes it possible to distinguish the history of Moses from Goldilocks? Basic intelligence would go a long way. Common sense. The ability to read.
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yes, i agree.
So you CAN tell the difference? Then YOU spell out the difference.
Or maybe it's just one of those things where the ordinary human mind is SO fallen it can't cope with such obvious stuff, in which case we must rely on God's help. If you can't recognize the stuff of reality when you read it, God help you indeed.
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but you've failed to demonstrate what factors should be recognized as reality. what makes moses different?
What makes Attila the Hun different? Genghis Khan? Not true anyway, as I've suggested quite a few factors in passing. Here's another list: Witnesses, numbers of witnesses, credibility of witnesses, respectability of witnesses, also number and character of people who have found it credible and understood it to be true history -- character witnesses you could say.
Also the *feel of reality*. Do I really have to spell that out? You really think somebody could INVENT Moses, or any of the books of the Bible or Jesus Christ? See, if you really really think that, you are beyond ANYTHING I could say to try to dissuade you from your folly. Far more likely to be effective that I just keep calling people who think they think such things
idiots and
stooges than actually try to explain something so mindnumbingly OBVIOUS. In other words, you CAN'T really really think such a thing, you are just under some weird spell that KEEPS you from thinking.
Again, C.S. Lewis did a great job of discussing how the Bible is so far from anything like myth it takes a special kind of blindness to have such an idea
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ok, well we'll discuss a book by c.s. lewis's good friend then, the lord of the rings. the lord of the rings, like the bible is inordinately long, told from multiples perspectives, and (arguably) like the bible has a coherent overriding theme of a coming messiah. magical things happen, just like in the bible. so tell me, what makes the lord of the rings a work of fiction, and the bible a work of fact, other than the fact that we know tolkien wrote lotr?
Don't be a complete dolt. Again if you really can't tell the difference, far better you begin to take in the information that you ARE a dolt, even a
blithering idiot than that I try to meet such a ridiculous requirement as to try to lay out the differences beyond what I have already done. SOMETHING has to zap you out of such mind-rotting stupidity as is mistaken here for intelligence.