Posted on 06/17/2017 3:19:52 PM PDT by NYer
>events in the Old Testament
Whatever happened to the good old days...Kill yer brother, mother, sister, father, grandkids, goats etc.
All based on what sombody said they said someone saw or heard.
It’s a wonder the swarthy filthy islam male abuse did not come sooner.
Your post took me back 40 years to a conversation I had with a great friend, who became a missionary in the Yukon.
He encouraged me to read the whole Bible by saying “What if you’re in Heaven someday and Obadiah comes along and says “Hi, I’m Obadiah. Have you read my book?”
LOL! I hope to be able to sit some of the writers down and make them clarify their pronoun antecedents and go into *real detail*.
When I teach Sunday School, I always tell the students that they need to have a Bible in a version that they enjoy reading. “Make your parents go to the used book store!” Then they should start reading at 1 Samuel.
Although the Hebrew Bible names almost 3,000 people, Mykytiuk states that for an overwhelming number of these, it only gives the person’s name and does not supply enough specific information about them to identify them in any other writing.
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Well, God says, “Tell them I AM sent you”.
And if we get to the NT, the problem of Jesus arises.
I just realized (slow learner) that I argue with every ‘data’ source (news anchors, neighbors, fellow workers..., even my wife, ...) except the BIBLE.
It is very calming to read the Bible, and let God talk TO ME.
I don’t doubt the historicity of Biblical accounts in the least, myself. However, there have been so many hostiles pretending to be objective historians and archaeologists denying this over the decades of my life that I derive some satisfaction in seeing direct evidence of it. I don’t need it but others might.
One of the things it does show is that the people who "late date" the books of the Bible are incorrect....."
Concur. When I was in law school, I had a professor who spent a lot of time having us read ancient history, written by the ancients. Because the ancient people would only tell the story form the perspective most favorable to them. The objective of his lessons was to learn how to state situation most favorable to your position in a persuasive manner.
Someone asked him why we did not study Bible. He said that the Bible wasn't written that way. He said the Bible was written more objectively than any history book he had ever read, e.g. King David committed adultery and had the husband killed.
That's the science of rhetoric.
Ping!
Thank you for the ping.
Now the focus should be on bitachon.
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