Old Testament reliability
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Is the Old Testament reliable?
- Is the creation narrative in Genesis accurate?
- Is the Earth flat?
- Are the animal behaviors described in the Bible accurate?
- Was there a race of giants?
- Did mystical beasts in the Bible exist?
- Did Adam and Eve exist? Whom did their children marry? [Gen 4:17]
- Did all languages originate at the Tower of Babel?
- Was the story of Noah's Ark derived from earlier legends?
- Did some people in the Bible live for hundreds of years? [Gen 25:7]
- Did God perform the miracles of Moses? [Ex 3:4]
- Did certain astronomical events in the Bible happen?
- Is God unable to defeat certain armies? [Jud 1:19]
- Did some of the military victories in the Bible happen as described?
- Is God sometimes unaware of Satan's whereabouts? [Job 1:7]
- Is God vengeful?
- How are the unfulfilled prophecies explained?
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Christian views
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Secular views
- "It seems reasonable to me that real events beget legends. People who lived in the times, probably knew who was king at the time, what cities were where, etc. As an analogy, in a few hundred years, someone finding a video of the movie Titanic could conceivably conclude that it was a documentary piece. Lots of events in the movie could conceivably be confirmed via other records of the Titanic. So, using the same reasoning, someone could erroneously conclude that the events in the movie were all historic."
