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Originally Posted by Shades
Talk about strawman arguments, photon. Right after you disparage someone for using them no less.
Archeological evidence supports everything that has been recorded in the Bible. Times. Dates. Events. Using your scientific approach, it's up to you to prove to me that the Bible doesn't actually, right?
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Some of the stuff recorded in the Bible is archaeologically accurate, yes. There is a lot of evidence for some of the landmarks or events like a great flood (which, amusingly, actually seems to occur at least once in most religious texts...maybe they're all the same event!
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Either way, using parts of the Bible seems a bit silly, especially if you use anything but the original texts. Much of the context of such articles is lost (especially when people nitpick specific words or, even worse) of 2 translations (I believe the originals were in Hebrew, then were translated to Latin for priests, then translated by King James to English).
As an example, here's a link to an image of all the possible contradictions made in the English version of the Bible:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662676/...ible-got-wrong
And as photon once mentioned...:
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Originally Posted by photon
I don't know if it's in there, but my favorite one is the story of Moses and the plagues in Egypt. The cattle managed to get killed twice, some of them even three times!
Exodus 9:6, all the livestock are killed in a pestilence.
Then in 9:18 there's a warning of a massive hail storm, and in 9:19 Moses is supposed to warn Pharaoh to bring his livestock so they don't die. Again.
Then in 11:5 it's warned the first born are going to die, including the twice dead first born of all the cattle.
And in 12:29 the threat is followed through on all the firstborn of the cattle were smote. Again.
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