Historical Accuracy
Here are the rules historians use to judge historical accuracy of information. How does the bible rate?
| Bible Historical Accuracy | |
|---|---|
| Are records acknowledged as fallible? | fail |
| Are records first-hand accounts? | fail |
| Are records contemporary with claimed events? | fail |
| Are events independently corroborated? | fail |
| Are events plausible under the laws of physics? | fail |
| Are events verified by concrete relics? | fail |
| Have records been reliably preserved? | fail |
| Are records preserved in their native language? | fail |
| Are authors socially and politically unbiased? | fail |
It is amusing that Christians are happy to use these criteria when studying Alexander the Great, but when it comes to Jesus, they throw them all out and become as gullible as three year olds. They so desperately want to believe. It is so pathetic. In the Christian mind, believing will make it so, the way children at a reading of Peter Pan make Tinkerbell come back to life by clapping to attest their belief in fairies.
~ Roedy (born:1948-02-04 age:68) The Unreliability of the New Testament