Worth reading
Ping.
Interesting.
Awesome.
Yes, I thank thee. Very well argued. Helps me to tie up a few loose ends.
Point: No one ill-acquainted with ancient history, or any history, is aware how LITTLE evidence of the past we have. Not many years ago, a historian sought to do a student of the Republican radicals by doing a biographical study of the Radical who served in Congress during and after the Civil War. He was surprised to learn that even though these were men prominent in their local communities, there was surprising little remaining evidence of their lives, quite often no more than what appears on their tombstones. Regarding the argument from silence, so many of the assertions coming from infidels, such as those of the Jesus seminar, are based on the absence of evidence supporting the Gospel testimony. But the ravages of time are greater than we sometimes allow. There is a documentary that portrays what would happen to man’s work on this planet if we were suddenly to disappear. Conclusion: within a few thousand years, nothing of it would remain above ground. In the Middle East, where the ruins have been mined for usably stone and other materials, where items of value have long since been sold off and migrated sometimes thousands of miles, the dilligent work of a few thousand people over the past two hundred fifty years has brought to light a few million fragments of what used to be. Much of the work has been in the Holy Land, but nonetheless, they have uncovered only a few pieces of a puzzle that will forever remain incomplete. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.