DeacinBama
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People are entitled to believe whatever they want, but the problem with Christianity is that it values faith over logic and fact. That's fine if people want to do that but let's all at least admit what it is. This is why I find it difficult to discuss the topic in general because there's a different underlying thought process behind religion and then things like science and observation.
If we're being generous, even, three accounts are heavily reliant upon the fourth and the fourth in all likelihood didn't witness any events about which "he" (or more likely "they") were writing.
Given the general reliability of four separate accounts, which are taken literally as gospel, it seems pretty unlikely that what is recorded in the Bible is even 50% accurate. I would also posit that even if 99.9% of the Bible was in fact accurate, the .1% which was not was probably the portion dealing with any miracle which was alleged. Hell most of the miracles of the Bible were probably just a gross misunderstanding of the basic aspects of life. This was two thousand years before germ theory came about, there probably wasn't any wine to water miracle. I'm sure the Red Sea parted because there was a drought and someone was able to walk/swim across and the followers got caught in a strong current or storm (if there actually was something like this that even occurred at all).
I thought I read recently that there is no historical evidence at all that there were ever any Jews imprisoned in Egypt
Maybe I'm missing some context here, but what exactly are you trying to get at? That religion is an arrational institution? That the Bible is not to be used as a history textbook? I mean, that's all true, but it's not exactly groundbreaking news. You describe the paucity of logic and fact as a "problem" to Christianity, as if the two belong in the same discussion. Religion being illogical isn't a problem at all; it's damned near the definition of it. I realize that there are some people who don't recognize that, but are they really on this thread (honest question, read rest of thread awhile ago)?