From the Errancy discussion list May, 1998:
TILL
[The
Bible] is filled with miracle claims, some of which were such that had
they actually occurred, independent, disinterested corroboration of them
would have been left by the contemporaries of those to whom these
events happened. But in all of the information ever found that
corroborates biblical records, NONE of it corroborates any of the
extraordinary information claimed in the Bible. Only extrabiblical
confirmation of the very plain and ordinary claims of the Bible has ever
been found. Strange indeed!
M.BELL
And of course in F.Till's mind strange equates with false.
TILL
No,
not at all. I think it strange that people who live in enlightened
times could read the nonsense in the Bible written by people who lived
in prescientific, superstitious times and believe that it all actually
happened, yet it certainly isn't false that there are people who have
this belief.
I
think this would be a better way to state what is in my mind on this
matter: If it is more unlikely that the hundreds of miraculous events
claimed in the Bible could have gone unnoticed by independent,
disinterested parties than it is likely that the events actually
happened, then it is reasonable to doubt the historicity of the
completely biased claims that such events happened.
Farrell Till
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