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To: Pietro
You do yourself a disservice by by mindlessly passing off the Bible so cavalierly. There is demonstrably devine wisdom in it.

I trust you can prove this statement without citing the Bible? (Using the Bible's assertion of it's own divinity to prove it's divinity is a bit circular).

141 posted on 03/01/2002 5:45:29 AM PST by cracker
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To: cracker
"I trust you can prove this statement without citing the Bible?"

Sure can, and thanks for your trust.

The Bible is chock full of prophesies that have come to be, such as the decendants of Abraham being more numerous than the sand on a beach. Or Daniels' prophecies which came to pass in the age of the Selucids, or Jesus' prophecy that the temple would be destroyed.

Or how about life teachings, such as the serpent tempting Eve that she "could be like God" if she would only rebel against Him. We see the same problem today as we toy w/ cloning and in the massacre of abortion. Are we trying to be "like God", and what will be the consequences of our arrogance? Can you say brave new world should we make that fatal error once again?

The simple truth of its own existence, virtually unpolluted for 3,000 years is testament to its value. What work of Socrates or Confucious has come down to us in such a complete and uncorrupted state?

My God, man, the existence of the state of Isreal in and of itself bears witness to the book's divinety. What other people in the history of the world has been so trampled upon, dispersed and abused as the Jews and yet not only survived, but returned enmass to their ancestral homeland--after 2 millenia?

You want proof???

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls which proved the purety of the text over the last 2,000 years is unprecedented.

Allow me to reiterate; The refusal to recognise wisdom is the definition of a fool.

156 posted on 03/01/2002 6:22:18 AM PST by Pietro
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