Posted on 11/15/2002 6:22:37 AM PST by hchutch
I'll bite. For many reasons but the one that I think will interest you most is archeological and historical. Every year more and more historical information in the Bible is proven to be accurate when they were previously declared mythical by the scientific community. The city of Ur (from which Moses came) it was said never existed until they found references to it in unearthed historical documents. The story of Jericho was said to be a myth until the remnants of the walls were unearthed in positions consistent with that of a great earthquaked. These are relatively (in our lifetimes) recent discoveries. Over the centuries, more and more biblical history is proven true and accurate. And then you have the prophets which predicted historical events that happend hundreds of years after they predicted them (fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians, etc.).
The monthly publication "Biblical Archeology" has enormouse amounts of information on this type of thing if you are interested.
Go get 'em.
Butters put that episode over the top....I won't spoil it for people watching this weekend for the first time.
Uh, that's Schießer film, I think...
The most ingenious way to bring back a dead character.
"Precioussssssssss..."
For all LOTR and South Park fans, this week's new episode is a must see. If you were not able to watch it Wednesday night, make sure you see it over the weekend. You gotta love Cartman, but this episode has the perfect part for Butters.... "My precious."
That describes me to a T!! I thought maybe "NeoCon" worked but it only got close.
This is great information! Now, if we can just get the "ALL OR NOTHING" Conservative Republicans to just stop calling us "RINOs". I prefer "Broken Glass Republican" myself.
????? Abram/Abraham ????
Oh boy . . . Not to offend anyone but . . .
To me, religion is what people call anything that fills a void in their life - stuff from New Age-ism to fitness, shopping or gambling.
Church (at least in the U.S.) for the most part is where people go to get filled with a warm and fuzzy feeling that they equate with sprituality and to sing happy slappy songs with their hands up in the air.
My definitions are based on my considerable life-experience and are, of course, only my opinion. Flame-retardent suit in place . . .
True, but even to an intelligent atheist, the record is pretty amazing. Nothing (that I'm aware of) in the Bible proven decisively incorrect but I've no idea how many (remarkable and previously disbelieved) things proven accurate . . .
I think it takes more faith to believe that all these different authors across so many different time frames and compiled by so many different editors thousands of years later could just coincidentally end up being so accurate. Again, just mho.
Quite the opposite! Religion requires that you expand your mind to possibilities other than the viewable and repeatable scientific process. Quantum physics and religion have more in common than quantum physics and Newtonion mechanics.
The city of Ur (from which Moses came)
????? Abram/Abraham ????
176 posted on 11/15/2002 12:17 PM EST by MSgt Smith"
EEK! Forgive my (major) faux pas - you are correct, sir. Thanks (blushing)
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