First things first:
In 115 AD, P. Cornelius Tacitus wrote the following passage that refers to Jesus (called “Christus,” which means “The Messiah”) in book 15, chapter 44 of The Annals:
“Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular. Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind. Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired.”
I find this funny, because I see us heading this way again, oh not with the death and torture. But we already have the humiliation down.
OK, well lets start with what the Bible tells us;
It tells of of dinosaurs, chapters 40 and 41 in Job.
Stars being uncountable; Jeremiah 33:22
Tells us air has weight; Job 28:25
Blood being central to our being; Leviticus 17:11
I do find atheists funny in the fact they parrot just like Christians, for example I found this quote:
This is what always gets me, well not just this, but nothing in the bible can be supported by any sources outside the bible. Indeed, the bible doesn't prove the bible to be true but they won't get it.Oh my, cannot forget this one:
I can tell you have never read the entire bible, only selected parts of it. It is evil document. For example, it calls for murdering one’s own children for the silliest of excuses. If you read the whole thing, you will discover you are forced to disown/discount most of it at too barbaric/silly. If you would like to get aquainted with some of the stranger, lesser known parts of the bible, see my bible study guide. The bible claims infallibility, yet it is flat out wrong on nearly everything it has to say about history or science. It thus cannot be the word of god. It thus should not be given any more weight that other ancient works by men on morality. In the name of religion, people do the most evil things because they are so sure god wants them to. The bible was penned by some very screwed up people, especially Deuteronomy and Leviticus and the psychotic guy who wrote Revelation.
I like the evil part myself, I left the link so I can go back and read his Bible study. Oh and for the record I have read the Bible and I am not forced to disown/discount most of it at too barbaric/silly.
So, it comes down to many fools writing a book not able to be supported outside of itself. Well let me see, how about more facts:
Isaiah wrote during the reign of the Judaean king Hezekiah, who died in 687 B.C., but Cyrus did not begin to reign as king of the Persian empire until after 600 B.C., more than 80 years after Isaiah left the scene. Only God could know the name of the man who would be the Persian king before he sat on the throne.
Recent discoveries have validated the historical integrity of the Bible, causing many archaeologists, who have had a poor regard for the Bible, to turn from a bias against it to a scientific respect for it. For example, in Genesis 15:20 a people called the "Hittites" are mentioned. For centuries, people laughed at the Bible for making up a whole group of people. But a few decades ago, the ruins of a city located in the country of Turkey, north of present-day Israel, was discovered which proved to be the ruins of a main Hittite city.These being supplied by: http://www.shenessex.heartland.net
In the end, I take faith, belief with out facts. And according to some, I am an idiot, I am irrational, I am dangerous. So mothers warn your little girls about the big bad Christian faith man...
