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Before proceeding to show how David is Jesus' paternal ancestor, I think it
reasonable to emphasize that much of Christianity cannot be proven true by
means of empirical evidence. In other words; many elements of Christianity
would never hold up in an unbiased court of law wherein facts are afforded
far more value than the words of any one particular holy book; whether the
Tanach, the Koran, the Sutras, the Book Of Mormon, or the Veda, et al.
Using the Bible's statements to prove the Bible's statements are true is sort
of like what would be a jury acquitting defendants based solely upon the
accused saying they didn't do it, viz: the Bible is true to a Christian, but we
cannot sensibly expect it to be true to critical thinkers, i.e. the Bible is our
truth, but not necessarily everybody's truth. So let's not be going about in a
manner similar to inflamed fanatics waving placards, shouting, baring our
teeth, and spraying spittle; demanding that people defer to our way of
thinking.
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Before proceeding to show how David is Jesus' paternal ancestor, I think it
reasonable to emphasize that much of Christianity cannot be proven true by
means of empirical evidence. In other words; many elements of Christianity
would never hold up in an unbiased court of law wherein facts are afforded
far more value than the words of any one particular holy book; whether the
Tanach, the Koran, the Sutras, the Book Of Mormon, or the Veda, et al.
Using the Bible's statements to prove the Bible's statements are true is sort
of like what would be a jury acquitting defendants based solely upon the
accused saying they didn't do it, viz: the Bible is true to a Christian, but we
cannot sensibly expect it to be true to critical thinkers, i.e. the Bible is our
truth, but not necessarily everybody's truth. So let's not be going about in a
manner similar to inflamed fanatics waving placards, shouting, baring our
teeth, and spraying spittle; demanding that people defer to our way of
thinking.
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