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It depends on the type of scripture. If, say, the basis for the claim of a national homeland rests on a scriptural record about God physically guiding the ancestors to the promised land through miraculous events, and such claims lead to thousand years long wars around the said homeland then it may matter.
As you're seeming implying, I am more interested in the lessons taught versus trying to assert X must have happened.
At issue with Hebrew scripture is the fact that it purports to be history and, therefore, more than exegesis.
This makes no sense. The historical accuracy of the bible is far from established. Even if it were, it would not follow that all its messages were reliable.
That's onlly your opinion ... The historical accuracy of the Bible have been more than established.
Like the historical accuracy of the introduction of camels in Jerusalem?
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The second part of my answer is that for some scriptures, their historical accuracy does not matter. For example, the Gita positions itself as a scripture taught in the middle of a literal world war. Even if you do not believe in the historical accuracy of the said war and stories around it, the point of the Gita primarily deals with how to use and practice Indian spiritual and religious praxis effectively for guidance on the righteous paths and eventually to liberation amid the struggles of life without having to be a renunciate monk. Can a holy life be led in the real world where good and evil actions are rarely clear cut and multiple duties collide and clash with each other?
Eh? That we don’t know the complete history of the region is not an argument that the bible is historically accurate, obviously. Whereas there are plenty of reasons to doubt the historical accuracy of the bible, the flood story and the Exodus story being perhaps the two best known examples. It is not only my opinion. It is the consensus of science and scholarship.That's onlly your opinion ... The historical accuracy of the Bible have been more than established.
It is the historical "knowledge" that scholars have the one that is incomplete, doubtful and debatable, as long as they cannot verify if their historical hypotheses are true or not.
Do historians know everything about the kingdoms that surrounded Israel and of which the Bible gives us so many details? Are they completely sure that everything they say about the History is true?
I think that is a good question. I think the lessons are much more important than what actually happened.
I can have a hint of the level of "education" of atheistic persons on this and other forums ... No, thank you.
What makes you think that it is accurate?
From what I have seen the Jehovah's Witnesses are the opposite of well educated. They are well indoctrinated. That is not the same thing at all.I can have a hint of the level of "education" of atheistic persons on this and other forums ... No, thank you.
How do you think the world would be a better place to live: full of college students or full of Jehovah's Witnesses?
This people of Jehovah's Witnesses is a highly educated international community like the one you will not find any other. I am proud to be an active member.
Having read The Bible I am not aware of any historical accuracy at all and I don't know what lessons can be learned from it, so for me it is not a go to book for those reasons.
Maybe because you have not a real History account to compare it to.
If you mean that none of The Bible stories can be verified in any way and are far fetched, yeah, that's about it.Maybe because you have not a real History account to compare it to.
Full of college students, obviously. I find the company of college students, their questioning, arguing and general intellectual liveliness, very stimulating. I found my own time as a college student, reading chemistry, the most mind-expanding period of my life and my son, who is now at university reading ancient history, has so much to teach me in a field I know little about.I can have a hint of the level of "education" of atheistic persons on this and other forums ... No, thank you.
How do you think the world would be a better place to live: full of college students or full of Jehovah's Witnesses?
This people of Jehovah's Witnesses is a highly educated international community like the one you will not find any other. I am proud to be an active member.
The Bible is not the only scripture.