this assumes that the Bible was not changed between the original writing and the earliest documents that we have found.
If the Bible manuscripts did not change for thousands of years, then it's likely they did not change in 10 or 100. Furthermore, the manuscripts maintain two powerful witnesses that are the fingerprint of God:
Numerology, and
Prophecy.
If changes occurred, numerology would not work.
If changes occurred, prophecy would not be accurate.
Yet you trust what some scholars have said about the Hebrew in the Bible. You weren't there, how do you know that a particular series of letters in Hebrew actually mean what the scholars say it does?
Again, because numerology would not work, neither would prophecy.
I see you still assume that I am not saved and thus indicate wrongly that I am a liar. See what assuming does?
When I said, "If you do" does not mean that I believe you didn't.
See what happens when you assume?
If it can be understood it can be faked.
Not correct.
Numerology and prophecy cannot be faked.
You said "almost no variation". That means, according to you, some things can be changed in the Bible without destroying the numerology. How can you now assume that the Bible is truth if you are required by common sense to avoid assumption?
The vast majority of the manuscripts are identical. There are only a few with variation, and it is always only those that are clearly corrupted.
Unsupported assertion in which Russ assumes that his memory is correct for these particular incidents.
We all rely on our memory for every conclusion we come to, even if the conclusion was arrived at 1 second ago.
We may look to the right and see that no cars are coming. We then look to the left and see that no cars are coming and then we feel free to pull out into the road.
We can only do this because we remembered our previous conclusion that no cars were coming to the right.
Memory is essential for intelligence.
A real archeologist would provide more in the video than an "I saw". He would show the process.
That is unrealistic.
When in court, witnesses are not required to demonstrate what they saw. They are witnesses to what they saw.
This testimony about the process of adjusting the instruments to match the desired dates is common practice according to a number of geologists and paleontologists, and this correlates with my world view.
So what? That doesn't mean that those corporations have a vested interest in pedaling evolution. Try showing the connection here through evidence instead of asking me to assume that you are correct.
To believe that corporations spend money without expecting a return is fantastically naive.
Based on the number of sincere Christians who have misunderstood prophecy, your prophecy evidence for the validity of the Bible is an assumption in itself.
Numerology can be faked unless you can definitively show where it cannot.
Numerology cannot be faked.
The fact the some people misunderstand something does not make that "something" "based-on-assumption".
My life experience has taught me that the majority is often wrong. This is why the Bible teaches that the way to Heaven is narrow and few there be that find it.
If you find yourself at a busy, heavily traveled gate, you're probably at the wrong one.
And a general never sacrifices part of his troops to gain a victory.
This is another fantastically naive assumption.
Your statements in your post are riddled with assumption, misstatement, misapplication, and your own brand of extrapolation.
Your line of reasoning leading to your conclusion that I am making an assumption that the Bible is accurate is not a synonym for my line of reasoning that there are assumptions in the predictions about the rate of radioactive decay for unobserved curves.
You have made fundamental mistakes in your reasoning.
"One of the determining forces of scientism was a fantastic accidental imagination which could explain every irregularity in the solar system without explanation, leap the gaps in the atomic series without evidence [a gap required by the Big Bang theory], postulate the discovery of fossils which have never been discovered, and prophesy the success of breeding experiments which have never succeeded. Of this kind of science it might truly be said that it was `knowledge falsely so called.' "—David C.C. Watson, The Great Brain Robbery (1976).
