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Originally Posted by A.DIM
Rhetorical question?
If I were one who simply dismissed the Bible's historicity then I'd have accepted her statement without asking for a reference.
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What matters is the truth of the statement, not who said it when. The fact that you can provide no convincing evidence that the statement is incorrect leads me to believe it stands the greatest chance of being correct. I would be happy to provide a list of historical errors in the Bible for you:
Genesis 11:11 (and elsewhere) claims people lived for 500 years. Where is the historical and/or biological support for this?
Deuteronomy claims there were giants on the earth. Where is the archaeological evidence for this?
1 Samuel claims the Earth is resting on pillars. Do I even need to ask this one?
And it goes on and on. My point is not to slam religion...my point is that if you are going to claim the Bible as historically accurate, I would say the burden of proof is on you. Focusing on such a trivial question does not help your case, IMO.