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Old Jan 2, 2008, 06:11 pm   #38 (permalink) (top)
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you don't pay much attention, do you?
Speaking with my mod hat on, such personal comments aren't necessary. But back to the point:

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the prophecies?
As noted these prophecies are either exceptionally vague thus proving nothing, or thiests go out on a limb to attempt to claim they have been fulfilled.

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the miracles?
History is riddled with supposed miracles that have occured. As an undergraduate history student, I wrote my dissertation on medieval chivalry, and I have read literally dozens of accounts of Muslims, Jews, Christians, pagans, etc, supposedly witnessing miracles. To put it blunty, in the past, people had a tendancy to 'spice' up the stories of their peoples heroes by having them performing miricles or various other inhuman feats. So, stories of miracles prove little.

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the places in the bible are true, yes, but so are the events.
Some of them, some of them are chronologically out of place, some are very different from other accounts and many are entirely fictional. This, like miracles, is common to ancient and medieval literature. For example, Geoffrey of Monmouth in his psuedo-history Historia , makes numerous references to actual events; that does not stop his obvious fabrications from being entirely the product of imagination.

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do the research.
I cannot speak for Cephus, but I have done a considerable amount of reading into biblical criticism; have you?


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