Message from @DariusGalaxyz
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What about the Dead Sea Scrolls, they weren't even discovered until the 1950s or so. Meaning that just because they haven't been discovered doesn't mean they never existed.
The dead sea scrolls were also found in a pace uniquely favorable to the survival of such records...
IF records of those events had existed, they certainly did not by the time of Jesus's death
That's like before 1492 saying North America NEVER existed because it was never discovered.
Suddenly North America always existed since it was then discovered
So you're saying there's no way new records could be discovered ?
They're actually books named after the people who wrote them, Matthew Mark Luke John
The disciples that were actually with Jesus at the time he was walking the earth
Think about it... let's take for example the flood and Noah's Ark... let's just put aside, for a minute, the improbability of getting ALL of those animals and humans on a boat the size quoted in the Bible. Do you REALLY think ANY record of that event would have survived that cataclysm??
Just a few years ago they uncovered something new in Jerusalem that they're saying could've been where Jesus was.
Yes I do
Right, you're right. What if the evidence of the ark never survived? How then can you prove it's just a story and never existed ?
It took more than 500 years for them to find King Richard III.... you REALLY think we would EVER find the ACTUAL remains of Jesus??
Of course we wouldn't find a remains of Jesus, that didn't even find them three days later when they searched the grave
I never said that the ark never existed. I said any written records from that time likely could not have
and the improbability of the ark story REALLY lends doubt to the stroy itself
He was never actually interred Toony...
But then how can you say that those events aren't factual, and only allegory ?
Do you REALLY think the Romans would have given him or allowed such an honor??
God can make anything happen, people can't forget that.
We so limit God in what He has the power to do
Yes I believe they would have
Because the events described in that book are fantastical to the point of fiction... we KNOW how some things work in this world... like writing, weathering, etc...
AND... the book was written WAY after the events
According to scholars and scientists
The book was not written way after the events, they were written during
NO story survives exact and intact through word of mouth telling...
No... there is absolutely NO text of a bible from that time
They were not written on the paper that we used today
Yes there is
So again, if we discover texts in the future, then you would be wrong, lol ?
No... they would have been something like papyrus... but papyrus is still subject to the ravages of time
NOTHING is immune to that
God is immune to that
You're discounting the Bible as allegory based on that ALL evidence would already be gathered
But papyrus and other materials are not
If God wanted to make something exist that long, it will exist that long
I never once said I discounted the bible
You said those stories are mere allegory