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"It is one continious line of history written by the followers after the Apostles.
Scripture is history.....look at the dead sea scrolls."
Man's written word and accuracy have never been on the best of terms, especially when promoting ideologies and agendas.
Embelishment and distortion (intentional and otherwise) are the cliche's of all such past down stories. Even playing telephone in a single line for five minutes, young or old, unravels any hope of maintaining accuracy.
(Think hard, how unbias is a "believer", a "follower", a devout and loyal servant whose sworn duty is to convert all others?)
"You believed because you saw, Blessed is he who has not seen but believes."
This statement is misleading. Believes in what? The truth of the existance of God and miracles and therefore the legitimacy of all words and messages claimed to be from God?
If no one had heard of or "seen" the Bible, Jesus, or a mentioned God, then what would you expect them to believe without having seen?
You talk of man's deciet and ignorance to such simple basic and evident truths, truths you believe even though they are but claims from the mouths of these same men as they were when presented to you and everyone else who has not taken part in the events of the Bible themselves.
Even history books aren't accurate, science books, you say so all the time yet......
"Scripture is history.....look at the dead sea scrolls."
and suddenly thats supposed to mean something, supposed to add support to its factuality?
For all of eternity, would it be safe to say that there are at least 2 active accountings, perceptions, and beliefs on every event historical or otherwise known to man? But of course probably infinitely more.
And even though no two people can seemingly have a conversation and give the same accounting of history without reading word for word from the same book, there are those who are convinced that they know for a fact that the Bible is accurate, interesting.
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Whats even funnier is when religious people talk of others being brain washed because they don't believe the same thing. Being brainwashed is simply being told something is true, forcibly or through fear in the face of resistance, untill you BELIEVE it. Its most notable and effective with children.
Which is exactly what religion does, tells kids they are going to hell if they don't believe (and of course it has and still does go much further).
This affects people's perceptions, beliefs, loyalties and bias from cradle to grave, in a way that all else is condemned for doing.
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Jesus spoke of humility, and yet its the Christian belief that mankind is above all other forms of life and nature other than god, that the universe it but a playground for man and his maker, a philosophy reeking of humility  .
"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"
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