And that is what I am discussing also. If I can establish first what you would consider empirical historical accuracy from work produced by men, I can then (perhaps) demonstrate to you that the Bible satisfies that criteria. Since the Bible claims to be "the Word of God", accuracy and corroboration on empirical historical fact can be used to support other, less measurable inferences.
But, typically, you did'nt give me a straight answer to see where I might be going, junior. You simply assumed I'm an idiot (like anyone that actually believes in God, right buddy?) and gave me the back of your hand.
My original question stands - What is your standard for accuracy in a history textbook?
Alternatively, please present any evidence you have of archeology, anthropology, or astronomy that directly demonstrates a statement from the Bible is false.
And please trot out something more original than "Solomon's Sea does'nt have the right proporations". A rounding difference on a "cubit" for a structure built 400 years before Euclid and Archimedes established 'pi' is a hair split of the lowest order.
Huh? Historical accuracy does not correlate to evidence for the Word of God. It simply means that someone accurately recorded historical events. If he embellishes said events with references to the Almighty, one cannot infer that the Almighty exists. For example, the Greeks and Egyptians were pretty good about making records of just about everything under the Sun. Simply because they peppered their works with references to their gods does not, in any way, corroborate the exitence of those gods.
I disagree. If the Bible is the word of God, then why would God lead us to believe that pi=3? Why give exact dimiensions, instead of saying clearly that its "a bit more than" whatever number is given for the dimensions? Even 400 years before the Greeks determined pi accurately, surely God knew that the correct value was not 3, right?