DaRev said:
EdHieron said:
DaRev said:
EdHieron said:
DaRev said:
whatever dude - the bible has been around forever, and inspite of all its purported flaws, and it will be around long after you and your prestigious scholars and universities have turned to dust. 1 book my friend, 1 resilliant little book like no other 
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Also "The Bible" really hasn't demonstrated that it's that much more resillient than many of the world's ancient texts. You can still go into any major bookstore and still buy "The Iliad", "The Odyssey", the "Bhagavad Gita", the Egyptian "Funerary Texts and Book of the Dead", "The Gnostic Gospels" ( interest in which has been dramatically on the increase over the last 50 years or so in comparison to the texts contained in the official version to the point that modern versions of "The Bible" are starting to include them in their texts), and even the Sumerian texts long after the time when Christians tried to stamp all trace of most of them out of the world, so I wouldn't even say "The Bible" is all that more resillient than many other ancient texts.
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Remind me again how man people in the world in different countries and across different culters and races worship the God of the Iliad RELIGIOUSLY day by day. We know who christians are, but what do you call people who's main religious text is th e Book of the Dead? Are you a member or believer in any of these groups? Have you been debating or seen many debates with people that worship the god og the Odyssey?
Please expand upon the purported significance and the followings of these texts you mentioned in contrast to the Bible. Thanks
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I don't know of many but given the great lengths including burnings of the texts and murders of the people that believed in them that the Christians went to to have all of these other books removed from the face of the earth during the early years of their era through the Middle Ages, it would appear that for such a supposedly omnipotent god Yahweh just wasn't strong enough to really exterimate Zeus, Thor etc. Or that if he was really so omniscient, he would have known about the prescence of the Gnostic Gospels in a jar in the desert in Egypt and had his followers destroy them since they cast him in such a bad light and are reportedly so demonic, but it didn't happen.
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you do realise that people have tried also to eradicate Christianity and the Bible - remember Jesus dieing on a Cross, remember that?
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Actually no one has tried to eradicate Christianity since Constantine made it the official religion of the Roman Empire, although it has done quite a good job of eradicating itself since all of the major claims that it made Millenia ago have been proven to be wrong since the advent of the Age of Scientific Inquiry and the Scientific Revolution. As for Jesus dieing on the cross, there's a great deal of scholarly debate on that point. The Apostle Paul never mentioned how Jesus died in his various writings, and even if he did die on the cross, the earliest version of the earliest of the Biblical Gospels, "The Gospel of Mark", doesn't mention that he resurrected and most scholars now think that the account of Jesus' resurrection in the version of Mark that we have today was only added some 50 or so years after Mark was originally written 30+ years after the supposed death of Jesus of Nazareth to bring it into line with the other Gospels.
