Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!wjh12!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Why I disbelieve the Bible. Message-ID: <192@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 01:32:25 EDT Article-I.D.: cybvax0.192 Posted: Fri Oct 19 01:32:25 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Oct-84 07:54:47 EDT References: <186@cybvax0.UUCP> <1438@qubix.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 29 > "Perfect[ing] their stories"? Given a choice between 'fessing up and > being thrown to the lions, how many would take the lions? > "Nice living"? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!!!! The job description Paul > gives in II Corinthians 11 is hardly "nice living." > > Many a man will die for what he believes to be true - > no man will die for what he knows is a lie. > -- > The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford Come now. You can do better than this pathetic excuse for an argument. People thrown to the lions may have "fessed up"-- record keeping in that era was notoriously poor. {:-)} And who would believe stories of confessions? Or give confessions under duress any credence? Or add them to the Bible? Paul's "job description" could as easily be an exaggeration as any politician's claims to simple lifestyles. It could also serve as a "hard luck story", to encourage donations, sympathy, etc. Suffering convinces people, even if it is involuntary or fictional. People seldom have a choice of whether to die or not for a lie. However, they frequently do gamble. And it takes little knowledge of history to think of other founders of religious sects who were killed when they finally were overcome temporally and physically. -- Mike Huybensz ...mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh