Today June 4th 2006 they had a documentary about who wrote the actual bible, did anybody have a chance to see it and if so what are your thoughts about the show.
Terry
Terry
terryl965 said:Today June 4th 2006 they had a documentary about who wrote the actual bible, did anybody have a chance to see it and if so what are your thoughts about the show.
Terry
desousae said:Yes, they do sit on the fence, and there is a reason for that. If they were to come out and take one side or the other, they would have to have some pretty hard evidence.
OnlyAnEgg said:Infrequently, I may glean a cited reference from the program and have a starting point for my own research; however, usually, shows like that are barely even edutainment.
Everyone still likes to entertain delusions that the books that make up the New Testament are independent "eyewitness" accounts written by "saints" in the first century. Yet this view has been all but discredited by modern scholarship.
pstarr said:Exactly. They also "proved" that the earth is flat, taught that eating tomatoes causes cancer, and a host of other scholarly issues...