flitzerbiest wrote:

So now your argument is if the Bible contains accurate historical references then it is inspired by God.  By this logic, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is also inspired, perhaps more so.

Try again?

he-man wrote:

Just because you say so does not provide evidence of non-inspiration. You fail to PROVIDE any evidence the the BIBLE is not inspired, where is YOUR silent proof?

One need not disprove a phenomenon for which there is no precedent.  Yes, the Bible contains history.  So does this morning's paper, which I take (I assume without argument) to be the product of human hands.

flitzerbiest wrote:

One need not disprove a phenomenon for which there is no precedent.  Yes, the Bible contains history.  So does this morning's paper, which I take (I assume without argument) to be the product of human hands.

he-man wrote:

there is no precedent? Where have you been all of your life? In a Cave somewhere?

From what is your precedent that the Bible is not inspired? H'mmm...Silent Argument again? Many people use the "Silent Argument" and suppose to suggest that the Bible is not inspired. Go to
http://www.allaboutarchaeology.org/moab … ne-faq.htm

This is the same argument.  The fact that the Bible has historical attachments is not proof of divine inspiration.  One does not need to prove a negative.  The burden is on those who claim special status for the Bible.  Ordinary status requires no such justification.

flitzerbiest wrote:

This is the same argument.  The fact that the Bible has historical attachments is not proof of divine inspiration.  One does not need to prove a negative.  The burden is on those who claim special status for the Bible.  Ordinary status requires no such justification.

he-man wrote:

Correct! The Ordinary status of the Bible to be inspired requires no such justification.

Please explain how an inscription that shows that someone mentioned in the Bible actually existed constitutes proof or even evidence of divine inspiration.  By the standard you have advanced, nearly every newspaper, magazine and a good bit of all fiction is divinely inspired.  You have merely demonstrated that the biblical authors lived in a historical context, a fact which was not in dispute.

flitzerbiest wrote:

Please explain how an inscription that shows that someone mentioned in the Bible actually existed constitutes proof or even evidence of divine inspiration.  By the standard you have advanced, nearly every newspaper, magazine and a good bit of all fiction is divinely inspired.  You have merely demonstrated that the biblical authors lived in a historical context, a fact which was not in dispute.

Okay here is the inscription that proves the Bible is inspired:

Mr 15:26  And the inscription of the cusation was written over him, THE KING OF THE JUDAEANS.

You are walking on very thin ice, least you be cut off like Uzziah:
2 Chron 26:16) But when he was strong his heart was lifted up, to his destruction, for he transgressed against the LORD his God by entering the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense. 18.......Get out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed! You shall have no honor from the LORD God." 21) King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He dwelt in an isolated house, because he was a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD.