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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Why would an Atheist want to teach Bible History?
Answer: To discredit it with half truths and omissions. This guy is hardly credible like most of your sources. I like how he pretends the Canon is still in question.
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Lol what? So who is qualified to teach Bible history then? An atheist can't because he clearly will use half truths and omissions to discredit it right? By that logic, then a Christian can't either because they will do the opposite to give it more merit than it warrants and won't be objective when criticism is called for.
So I guess the only good resource is a neutral one, a Biblical scholar who Buddhist maybe?
Christianity and the Bible are huge parts of history, that people of any faith and lack of faith would want to study it isn't surprising.
Plus the writer's motivation shouldn't disqualify their research, as creationists are fond of pointing out.
The canon is still in question to a small extent, rather some parts of Christianity use slightly different books. Some include other books in the NT such as Jubilees and the Book of Enoch (the Ethiopian Bible I think).
And of course there are groups like Mormons who add more books into what they consider scripture, so they have a different canon as well.