[tkathy]

But 2000 years of human editing and "spinning"

If you look at the revisionism and spinning of events in our own time, such as the Vietnam War, the deifying of Kennedy (who started Vietnam), there is good cause to suspect that the absolute truth of the biblical times is lost forever. It may be better to concentrate on the wonderful mystical aspects of Christ rather than the vicious mass tortures and murders of the times.

[Pete]

If you look at the revisionism and spinning of events in our own time, such as the Vietnam War, the deifying of Kennedy (who started Vietnam), there is good cause to suspect that the absolute truth of the biblical times is lost forever

See my post #12 above.

[tbpiper]

there is good cause to suspect that the absolute truth of the biblical times is lost forever.

Not when you consider the fact that the earliest texts of what comprises the new testament are essentially the same texts we have today. There has been no spinning or editing. The absolute Truth is alive and well. Also the victims of "the vicious mass tortures and murders of the times" didn't die for some "wonderful mystical aspects of Christ" but for the reality of a risen Savior.

[Mamzelle]

Or, what is far simpler, to accept by faith that we've been given what we need in what we have.

This is a very old story, those who challenge the sources of the Bible.

[Cronos]

If you look at the revisionism and spinning of events in our own time, such as the Vietnam War, the deifying of Kennedy (who started Vietnam), there is good cause to suspect that the absolute truth of the biblical times is lost forever.

How CAN you compare modern thrash papers with the Bible?? As stated in earlier posts, the Bible has not changed, bar translations in any possible way since it was first written.