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David Robbins said:
David m. I would like to have you read Daniel about the king of the north and south along with the encyclopedia. It's like Daniel was writing the encyclopedia. This was while he was living in the Babylonian empire. That was before the medio Persian empire which was before Alexander the greats death which was when his 4 generals scrambled to take over and see that Bible prophecy is real.
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It's gonna be a loooooong campaign...

 
Sounds like you have some serious anxiety issues and are actually reaching out to us instead.
 
David Robbins said:
David m. I would like to have you read Daniel about the king of the north and south along with the encyclopedia. It's like Daniel was writing the encyclopedia. This was while he was living in the Babylonian empire. That was before the medio Persian empire which was before Alexander the greats death which was when his 4 generals scrambled to take over and see that Bible prophecy is real.
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David, like many here and from our region, I grew up immersed in faith and religion. I've read and studied the Bible. I attended church every week. Nothing good happened that wasn't from God's grace, and nothing bad happened that God wouldn't see us through. I've heard it all.

Nobody would be doing you any favors by showing understanding for what you're espousing. You need to clear your head and find your way again, and that's probably going to take talking to people who have been as manipulated and consumed by this as you are. Religion can have a powerful and destructive hold on people, but there is freedom if you'll seek it. Good luck.
 
MTDB1983 said:
This is a lie. There isn’t any eloquent way to put it. This is the same lie paraded by the History Channel and several other secular platforms. It just simply is not true.
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Booker said:
It’s not a lie. That the Gospels are not eyewitnesses and copy from each other is well documented, mainstream biblical scholarship. That most of the epistles are forgeries is mainstream biblical scholarship. That the figures and stories of the OT are non-historical mythology is mainstream biblical scholarship.

There isn’t any eloquent way to put it, but Christianity is just as made-up as every other religion.
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MTDB1983 said:
It isn’t mainstream biblical scholarship. You’re simply parading untruths as fact.
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Provided are three books available here in the links below to read online for free by three mainstream biblical scholars discussing each of the three issues in my statements just above. I'm not a liar, and don't really appreciate being called one, but I am willing to believe you were simply ignorant of these issues. And you don't have to agree with their conclusions, I just want to show you that I am not making sheet up and that these are indeed well known issues of mainstream biblical scholarship.

First up - The Synoptic Problem by Mark Goodacre, a Professor at Duke University's Department of Religion. This discusses how the Gospels copy from each other, a well known fact among Biblical studies (aka "the synoptic problem").

https://archive.org/details/synopticproblemw00good

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Goodacre

Second - Forged by Bart Ehrman, the Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina. I'm not too much of a fan of Ehrman, as I think he's kind of dogmatic about sticking to the mainstream consensus, but this book is worth reading, providing a survey of which books are not believed to have been written by whom they claim to be and why.

https://archive.org/details/BartD.Ehrman-ForgedWritingInTheNameOfGod-WhyTheBiblesAuthors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman

Finally - The Mythic Past by Thomas L. Thompson, former longtime Professor of Theology at the University of Copenhagen, and also probably one of the most important biblical scholars of the last fifty years. This book discusses how evidence leads to conclusions that the stories of the OT are based in literary myth as opposed to being historical.

https://archive.org/details/TheMythicPastBiblicalArchaeologyAndTheMythOfIsrael

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Thompson
 
Booker said:
Provided are three books available here in the links below to read online for free by three mainstream biblical scholars discussing each of the three issues in my statements just above. I'm not a liar, and don't really appreciate being called one, but I am willing to believe you were simply ignorant of these issues. And you don't have to agree with their conclusions, I just want to show you that I am not making shirt up and that these are indeed well known issues of mainstream biblical scholarship.

First up - The Synoptic Problem by Mark Goodacre, a Professor at Duke University's Department of Religion. This discusses how the Gospels copy from each other, a well known fact among Biblical studies (aka "the synoptic problem").

https://archive.org/details/synopticproblemw00good

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Goodacre

Second - Forged by Bart Ehrman, the Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina. I'm not too much of a fan of Ehrman, as I think he's kind of dogmatic about sticking to the mainstream consensus, but this book is worth reading, providing a survey of which books are not believed to have been written by whom they claim to be and why.

https://archive.org/details/BartD.Ehrman-ForgedWritingInTheNameOfGod-WhyTheBiblesAuthors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman

Finally - The Mythic Past by Thomas L. Thompson, former longtime Professor of Theology at the University of Copenhagen, and also probably one of the most important biblical scholars of the last fifty years. This book discusses how evidence leads to conclusions that the stories of the OT are based in literary myth as opposed to being historical.

https://archive.org/details/TheMythicPastBiblicalArchaeologyAndTheMythOfIsrael

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Thompson
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“This is a lie”.

“You are a liar”.

Two different things. I don’t know a stranger on the internet well enough to call him a liar.

With that said, I could just as easily provide you with 3 mainstream Biblical scholars who contradict what you have provided. I’m not going to because I don’t have the desire to change your mind. Rest assured that I didn’t become the man I am by blindly following my local pastor. I’ve read enough to know the truth. I am well versed in Theology and that’s from years of study; study that included reading the Scholars I just mentioned. But I have no desire to argue with you about whether or not God exists. I’m not trying to convert you. I don’t shove my beliefs down people’s throat. But is sure sounds like you would like to convert me. Not interested.

Continue you on your way and I will continue on mine.
 
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