LDSToronto wrote:BrianH wrote:R>No argument here, Brian. I find the Bible highly questionable too. Is there some reason I should find its myths more believable than Mormon myths?
The fact that you cannot distinguish between the myths of Mormonism and the many thousands of indisputable historical facts recorded in the Bible has no bearing on the topic here. But now that you have made it clear that you do not believe the claims of Mormonism, there is no reason for you to pretend to be defending them. Obviously YOU do not have any reason to believe that the LDS really have restored the supposedly "lost" teachings of Christ. You appear to be here only to try to change the subject to drive YOUR agenda of complaining about the Bible - a topic with which you are are obviously unfamiliar. But again, unless the Bible records Jesus or perhaps his apostles teaching the doctrines that Mormons attribute to him, it is irrelevant to this challenge - a challenge you are obviously not here to even try to meet.
So there is really nothing left to discuss here. So ...<snip>
Biblical myths not supported by historical sources other than the Bible (from Wikipedia)
1 Marriage at Cana John 2:1-11
2 Exorcism at the Synagogue in Capernaum, Mark 1:21-28, Luke 4:31-37
3 Miraculous draught of fishes, Luke 5:1-11
4 Young Man from Nain Luke 7:11-17
5 Cleansing a leper Matthew 8:1-4, Mark 1:40-45, Luke 5:12-16
6 The Centurion's Servant Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10, John 4:46-54
7 Healing the mother of Peter's wife, Matthew 8:14-17, Mark 1:29-34, Luke 4:38-41
8 Exorcising at sunset, Matthew 8:16-17, Mark 1:32-34, Luke 4:40-41
9 Calming the storm Matthew 8:23-27 Mark 4:35-41 Luke 8:22-25
10 Gerasenes demonic Matthew 8:28-34 Mark 5:1-20 Luke 8:26-39
11 Paralytic at Capernaum Matthew 9:1-8 Mark 2:1-12 Luke 5:17-26
12 Daughter of Jairus Matthew 9:18-26 Mark 5:21-43 Luke 8:40-56
13 The Bleeding Woman Matthew 9:20-22 Mark 5:24-34 Luke 8:43-48
14 Two Blind Men at Galilee Matthew 9:27-31
15 Exorcising a mute Matthew 9:32-34
16 Paralytic at Bethesda John 5:1-18
17 Man with withered Hand Matthew 12:9-13 Mark 3:1-6 Luke 6:6-11
18 Exorcising the blind and mute man Matthew 12:22-28 Mark 3:20-30 Luke 11:14-23
19 An Infirm Woman Luke 13:10-17
20 Feeding the 5000 Matthew 14:13-21 Mark 6:31-34 Luke 9:10-17 John 6:5-15
21 Walking on water Matthew 14:22-33 Mark 6:45-52 John 6:16-21
22 Healing in Gennesaret Matthew 14:34-36 Mark 6:53-56
23 Canaanite woman's daughter Matthew 15:21-28 Mark 7:24-30
24 Deaf mute of Decapolis Mark 7:31-37
25 Feeding the 4000 Matthew 15:32-39 Mark 8:1-9
26 Blind Man of Bethsaida Mark 8:22-26
27 Transfiguration of Jesus Matthew 17:1-13 Mark 9:2-13 Luke 9:28-36
28 Boy possessed by a demon Matthew 17:14-21 Mark 9:14-29 Luke 9:37-49
29 Coin in the fish's mouth Matthew 17:24-27
30 Man with dropsy Luke 14:1-6
31 Cleansing ten lepers Luke 17:11-19
32 The Blind at Birth John 9:1-12
33 Blind near Jericho Matthew 20:29-34 Mark 10:46-52 Luke 18:35-43
34 Raising of Lazarus John 11:1-44
35 Cursing the fig tree Matthew 21:18-22 Mark 11:12-14
36 Healing the ear of a servant Luke 22:49-51
37 Catch of 153 fish
Oh, never mind the virgin birth and the Resurrection of Jesus...
Show us why we should believe in these historically unsupported biblical myths and *then* we can start talking about why your rejection of Mormon myths is acceptable.
H.
Your answer is irrational. Just because there are things in the 4,000 year record documented in the Bible that are not supported by historical findings is no reason to think that there is NO evidence for any others. Even an elementary-level of familiarity with the field of Biblical Archaeology or even basic historical reality would have made that simple, self-evident fact obvious to you.
Moreover, most of your examples above are things that would not leave anything in the way of evidence other than the testimony of the eye-witnesses to begin with! What ...do you really expect there to be archaeological evidence that would survive 2,000 to 5,000 years of history that would prove that a wedding occured, that a storm was calmed, of a man being healed, a fish being caught, a man walking on water? If you DO think that there would be some kind of evidence that could survive for thousands of years of such events, then please identify it and substantiate that expectation with some examples. If you cannot do that, then your entire premise here is demonstrated as baseless.
-BH
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