From: "Phil Payne" 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:45128914{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Absolutely right, of course.  There isn't a shred of evidence that
either
> > David or Solomon - or their Jerusalem - ever existed.
>
> Just pesky written history.  I suppose you don't believe anything just
> written down...

Contemporaneous notes I might be more tempted to believe.  Egyptian
hieroglyphs, that kind of thing.

But a vast amount of the Bible is oral history written down sometimes
centuries after the events occured.  When was the first of the Gospels
written?  Why does the New Testament essentially contain three copies of
the same text, leaving out other (and possibly older) material?

The Bible, for me, is as cedible as the Norse or Orkney sagas, or the myth
of the Nibelungen.

You could call all of that written history too, if you wanted, but it's
just as untrue.

It's a simple fact that there are bugger all archeological artefacts that
can be attributed to a city civilisation around the tenth century BC.

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