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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (23723)	7/26/1998 2:21:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

<<We have the eyewitness account of men and women who were willing to die rather than change their eyewitness accounts. The Apostles and disciples spent three years in daily contact with Jesus. His mother spent 33 years and nine months experiencing the life of her divine son and her experiences were recorded in Luke's Gospel. The historical accounts recorded in the Gospels were not hearsay accounts like your own but eyewitness accounts by the men and women who saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears the miracles and words of Jesus. Do you honestly believe that it is rational and honest for an observer to prefer your hearsay testimony 2000 years after the event rather than the sincere and honest testimony of eyewitnesses who would rather die than deny their testimony?>> Emile, everyone who is extremely religious is selfish in a way, because they need to be validated by their particular belief system, and constantly reassured that it is the real truth. I have no problem in asserting that the Bible is historically inaccurate and not the word of God. Can you produce the eyewitnesses who would dispute that? The Gospels were written some time after Jesus' life, not contemporaneously. Here, for example, is a story about the archaeological evidence of the Masada, which contradicts Josephus' account. If you are going to say the Bible is the word of God, then it must ALL be that way--you cannot make exceptions. Either it is, or it is not. pbs.org I am very sure that Mary was no virgin--the virgin story is allegorical, and comes from the Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris. I am sure that she loved her son, but we cannot go back in time and see things as they were then.