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You made the statement, "the bible is not a historical book because secular history cannot verify anything in the bible".
That's an all-or-nothing statement. You are in error because secular history does in fact verify many things from the Bible. What it does not do is verify everything... yet.
By the way, your statement is also a non sequitur. That secular history cannot verify something does not make it ahistorical. For centuries, skeptics thought that the biblical accounts of the Hittites were fictional. Do a little reading on that.
That's an all-or-nothing statement. You are in error because secular history does in fact verify many things from the Bible. What it does not do is verify everything... yet.
By the way, your statement is also a non sequitur. That secular history cannot verify something does not make it ahistorical. For centuries, skeptics thought that the biblical accounts of the Hittites were fictional. Do a little reading on that.
We need to get back to the truth of the bible which is all that matters. I guess that most if not all on this site believe that the bible is completely true. The question is what is the Truth or truths that it teaches and can those truths make a difference in our lives. Also does what the bible promises both now and in the future are they true for you.
For example the bible makes some very (what I would call - outrageous promises) astounding promises. Many of them are for our time, right now, as we are speaking, and others are to take place in the future.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Can we say definitively that we have proved the bibles promises for us in the here and now.
That is what we have to look into if we truly are going to say that the complete bible is 100% accurate.
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