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And why do you think the Bible isn't rooted in facts? There is no historical person, place or event mentioned in the Bible that has been shown to be false, and many have been shown to be true, some of which were believed false for a long period of time (the Hittite civilization, for instance) and then shown true.


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I think a more appropriate stance is to prove truth before taking things as fact instead of having to prove they are false before saying something isn't fact.

The things I am mainly talking about are not necessarily the existance of a person or place, but mainly the events. You can't prove that Jesus was resurrected, you can't prove that Jesus walked on water, etc. I consider these events to have been proved false simply by the fact that they are physically impossible. They are only possible if some other force is at work (God) which just takes us back to the beginning of this circular logic.

One more question. Why do you think it is that we haven't found many of the places that we would expect to find according to the bible. I'm mainly talking about things such as King Solomon's temple and empire. According to the bible this was supposed to be the grandest of the grand empires and yet we can't find a shred of evidence to support it's existence. It is things like this that would lead one to believe that much of what the bible says is not based on facts.