Go thru URL to access all links: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020201.html Who invented paradise? 01-Feb-2002 Dear Cecil: I enjoyed your commentary on...
Do I dare to respond to this? Jesus Christ claimed to be God. And God cannot be explained by logic (unless, of course, one looks at the order of creation and...
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Here we go again!...
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Here we go again!...
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Thanks Kim for a great study. Sondra O'Neale...
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You present as fact: the Exodus never happened; therefore Jews don't exist; therefore the Old Testament is Fiction; therefore the New Testament is Fiction. ...
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Dear Sondra, What is the nature of your evidence that there was an Exodus, besides your personal faith, and that the Exodus as portrayed in Holy Writ is ...
Okay, this is the last post before I go on vacation tomorrow. As you all know, I've been wrestling with the 'timetable' for over three months now. Last night,...
I am not putting words in your mouth. If there was never an actual Exodus, there would be no Jewish race. As the race was preserved during the period of ...
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Feb 2, 2002 9:59 pm
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Hi John ... The *KINGS* of Khatti mentioned can only have been the NeoHittite Kings of Northern Syria. The Anatolian Hittite was *A KING* - a Labarna - and...
Dear Sondra, YOu write: "If there was never an actual Exodus, there would be no Jewish race." Perhaps I am a johnny come lately to respond to this, I haven't...
Hi All, well, I suppose I should respond to this (though it seems to be a virtual repeat with no new material of things Walter has posted before). ... I have...
Dear Sondra, As I suspected, you have no archaeological evidence to present in support of a real Exodus, only your faith that it is all true. The discussion...
Richard has said nothing new (cf. my rebutals to his observations interleaved in his letter below). When I have pointed out to him on earlier occasions that...
Sondra ... eyes ... what ... I have to disagree with you. Of course, you are entitled to believe in the Bible as exact historical fact, but this list is about...
Peter how are we discussing history if we dismiss history as fiction. The Exodus was precisely the topic and I was sticking to it. To say that it did not...
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Feb 3, 2002 10:33 am
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Dear Walter: Why is it over? Because you say so? What kind of "discussion" is that? If one does not see "facts" as you do, one is to be dismissed? Over...
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Dear Richard: Thank you. Another thoughtful, "logical" discussion. I am especially impressed that you distinguish fact from fiction in the ancient world....
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Dear George: Thank you for your patient and kind remarks. I know that there is much difficulty in refering to Judah as a "race." A "people" would have been ...
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Feb 3, 2002 10:41 am
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Dear Sondra, If you have nothing to contribute of an archaeological nature on the historicity of the Exodus, except your Faith statements, I do not wish to ...
Hi Sondra Walter, George and Richard have all had a go at putting their oars into this pond. Let me add mine. Of course there were Jews, and before that there...
Sondra you wrote ... Sondra, I was of the impression that the Judeo Christian tradition commences in the creation, lasting 6 days, approximately 6,000 years ...
Hi Walter, Thanks for your reply. I suspect we are not going to reach agreement on this issue, but as usual I would be content with you accepting that...
You are quite right, Sandra, and in some respects they (could we say?) are a we bit wrong! Hi all The abstraction re., the earth having ceased to spin on its...
Hi all, John wrote) The Bible is not "scientifically true". Science did not exist for at least one thousand years after the New Testament was composed! jb)...
... God ... order of ... Creator); ... claims of ... Bible and ... intellectual ... more than ... other ... faith, ... Origins of the ... divisions ... book be...
I'm writing a study guide for a class I'll be teaching at the CCS in Manhattan on Joshua in the Spring. So, post Sept. 11th the holy war question is a strong...
Sondra ... the ... I'd be very interested in hearing your historical argument for this statement. In response to your comments on the Exodus - to paraphrase,...
