That may make it credible to them, but the comment that I was replying to seemed to be implying that the claims made about it (authorship, accuracy, historicty) should be credible to all.
The entirety of the Bible is claimed by some on here to be more than it is. Inerrant. Literal. Historical.
This is exactly the problem I have with it as well. Just adds to the inconsistency of decision making from the MRO, the tribunal and by extension the AFL which is frustrating for observers.
They may not have known the 'true' story, written 600-800 years after the events it purports to describe are supposed to have occurred.
The Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew) translates Exodus 12:40 this way: 'Now the sojourning of the children of Israel that dwelt in the land of...
Of course they exaggerate.
However there are other sources that support the actual event of the Persians invading Greece. No other extra-biblical source supports the historicity of the Exodus - where a enslaved people called the 'Israelites' leave Egypt after a series of plagues, wander the...
Of course there were large floods. But no global flood
There's no evidence to support an Exodus.
These ancient accounts are claimed as literal (i.e historical) events.
Then perhaps those 'exaggerations' and 'hyperbole' shouldn't be claimed as fact.
Refuting claims to fact without the...
Based on the weight of empirical evidence in support. The findings of genetics, geology and archaeology for example. They have refuted Adam and Eve and the Great Flood outright and placed a huge amount of doubt on the historicity of the Exodus.
Feel free to present evidence to the contrary...
Au contraire.
I have merely been asking for evidence in support of Biblical events claimed as historical events. You know...the usual... Adam and Eve, the Global Flood, the Patriarchs, the Exodus, the Israelite Conquest of Canaan and so on.
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