aren't you putting an awful lot of faith in man not to lie? let's put it this way. there either is or there isn't a god. right? so i'll be fair and say that it's equally likely in either case that a god exists or doesn't exist. that being said. you're already starting out with a 50% chance that the claim the bible is the word of god is a lie. now, assuming there is a god, how can we be sure that the bible is his word? again, to be fair, we'll assign a 50/50 probability that the people who wrote it lied to suit what they believed god wanted vs. what god actually wanted. so what you end up with, and this is being generous, is that the bible is at best has 25% probability that it actually is the word of god. this is not taking into account all the other religions of the world who claim their holy books are the word of god.
2007-11-14
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