I agree. Points for creativity to PH, though ;)
4. Revelation is a communication of something which the person to whom that thing is revealed did not know before. [Keep that definition in mind.] For if I have done a thing or seen it done, it needs no revelation to tell me I have done it or seen it, or to enable me to tell it or to write it. Revelation, therefore, cannot be applied to anything done upon earth, of which man himself is the actor or the witness; and consequently, all the historical and anecdotal parts of the Bible, which is almost the whole of it, is not within the meaning and compass of the word revelation, and therefore is not the word of God. [Ding, ding, ding!]]This is interesting. Paine starts out defining revelation as "a communication of something which the person to whom that thing is revealed did not know before." Fair enough. At the end, however, he makes the all-new assumption that the word of God (not previously defined) consists only of "revelation" as previously defined. This conclusion is unwarranted by his premise.
— THOMAS PAINE, The Age of Reason, part I, p. 13