Determining a book's truth.

If it is said that a city will be built no more/never be rebuilt refers to reestablishing that former city.

I think they had no reason to lie to me.

By the way, is the discussion you posted in an earlier post closed?

Within reason. Like as of right now if an account is one number off, like David numbered at 10,000 here, and then 20,000 there, Probably not, but I would definitely have something to think about. However, if you can give me something more substantial that contradicts, than yes, I would consider the Bible to be perhaps not nonsense, but I would likely not believe it anymore. Did you have an example in mind?

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What is the biggest bible contradiction or flaw in your opinion?
Just simply, what doesn't make sense in the bible sdf
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Well, some of the ones that come to mind for me are these:
The geneologies between Chr and Mt from adam to David disagree, even though they claim to be describing the same thing. Apologists respond as usual by making words mean things other than what they mean, (such as “father of” not meaning “father of”), but even that doesn’t work, since they have different numbers of generations, and Mt even makes it a point to count them, and counts them wrong.
The Ten commandments in Ex 20 and 34 disagree. The most common apologetic response is that the 34 set isn’t really the ten commandments, even though Ex 34:28 is clear that they are exactly that.The Birth year of Jesus in Mt and in Lk irreconcilably disagree. Mt and Lk mention herod, but then Luke mentions Quirinius, who ruled long after Herod had died. A longer explanation is at http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/Quirinius.html.The place where GoJ changes the day of Jesus’ death to make a theological point (that Jesus is the sacrificial lamb) - but that’s already being discussed.Peter denying Jesus 3 times before the cock crows in mark, and 3 times after the cock crows in John. Well, was it before or after? Fundamentalists say that both must be correct, and Peter must have denied Jesus 6 times! Silly - just like Jesus clearing the temple at the start of his ministry in John and at the end in the synoptics, fundamentalists take the same tack there, saying Jesus just must have trashed the temple twice. One would think they’d get tired of that and ban his admission or something. There are so many other things just like that that I better stop or I’ll be here all day.Some of the more notable ones between the gospels are when it must be from the holy ghost. For instance, in the speech before pilate, no disciples or bystanders are there - just Jesus, Pilate, and probably some guards. Of course the disciples didn’t interview pilate or the guard later, so how did the gospel writers get the stories? Must be straight from the holy ghost’s mouth (or whatever he has). Then why are they different between the gospels?
One other is the transfiguration thing I mentioned above, or the many disagreements between Kngs and Chr when they tell the same stories. For instance, they’ll have the same person die a different way in a different city, list different sizes of armies, etc.That’s probably a lot more than you want, but only a small sample of what's in the half million words of the Bible. Have a fun day-

Within reason. Like as of right now if an account is one number off, like David numbered at 10,000 here, and then 20,000 there, Probably not, but I would definitely have something to think about. However, if you can give me something more substantial ....

I think they had no reason to lie to me. I've both read from sources and been told that what I have told you as to what happened in Tyre is what happened.

When were the Dead Sea Scrolls found? If they were dated before the time of Alexander, or not to long after, then they cannot be post-hoc because they would have been written before him.

Psalm148 writes:If the issue is that since there is no writing dating back to that time to confirm that Daniel was in fact writing from Babylon and Persia, additionally to the question of why he would do that is that if you do that for this, why do you accept things like Socrates? None of his original works exist. And yet do you challenge them?

Psalm148 writes:A city with the same name doesn't mean it is the same city.

Ezekiel 26:14 writes:"I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you shall never be rebuilt; for I the Lord have spoken, says the Lord God."

psalm 148 writes:and just a city built near the ancient location would not mean it was the same.

Ezekiel 29:8-12 writes:...thus says the Lord God. And the land of Egypt shall be desolation and a waste...no foot of man shall pass through it and no foot of beast shall past through it; it shall be uninhabited for forty years. And I will make the city of Egypt desolation in the midst of desolated countries; and her cities shall be desolated forty years... I will scatter Egyptian among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

Abandon Tyre because we disagree on what happened to it in the past. I've read that it was besieged and taken, and yet you(s) claim otherwise.

Psalm148 writes:What I disagree with is that you are referencing things of dates much later in time. Aka the council of Trent. I think the Church was corrupted at this time. Largely due to the fact that Constantine screwed around with a lot of doctrine and did a lot of incorporating with Hellenistic culture.

True followers of Christ and believers wouldn't have thought to throw out the old law because that is where they get their scripture. Note, the Apostle Paul often quotes the Old Testament. Evidently he believed it to be factual otherwise he would not have bothered to cite it.

Jews and tradition is not what is important, rather the written word. The Law that was given by God to Moses on Mt. Horeb (according to the text), and that is what Jesus uses when he teaches. He rebukes the pharisees for forsaking God's law for tradition. Not to say that what the Older generation did is invalid, but rather that they must keep God's word rather than tradition.

Psalms writes:I've read that it was besieged and taken, and yet you(s) claim otherwise

Psalm writes:AS in it was in a different location then.

Psalm 129 writes:Neb started, Alexander completed, some other people rebuilt.

Psalm 148 writes:I assume its safe to say that this hasn't happened yet