Originally posted by Sauron
Which ones?
For starters, prophecies about Jesus Christ (read Jeremiah Ch.50-53) being the messiah, prophecies about Israel being destroyed ("no stone left upon a stone"), then prophecies of Israel coming together to form a nation again. Prophecies about "chariots", descriptions of which resemble cars. In general, the Bible is full of prophecies which have come true and are already coming true.
Which contradicts the view in the Bible;
The Bible doesn't teach a flat earth! God created the earth. Don't you think He'd know its geometric shape? Many people are fooled into believing that folks in Columbus' time didn't know that the earth was a sphere. But they believed in the Bible, and knew that it was spherical. The question was the relative size of it, and Columbus believed it to be much smaller than in reality.
It is? Show me where this "scientific fact" is documented.
The Bible. In all of the New Testament, prophesies from the Old Testament, and even books like Koran support that Jesus lived. Don't pick an argument on this point.
1. There is no evidence for this;
And there's no proof that people died in September 11. Yeah right! The Romans burned the first Christians at the stake, crucified them, threw them to hungry animals... How can you deny that? You're just a head-strong, stubborn man.
2. Even if true, what do you think it proves? People die for mistaken beliefs all the time.
You're right that people might be willing to die for a mistaken belief, but NEVER for what they know to be a lie. There were over 500 people who saw Jesus Christ ascend to heaven. Most, if not all of them were killed for preaching this fact.
1. They aren't from all over the globe;
He's right, man. There are too many legends of the flood to ignore. Legends from ancient China, Hawaii, Central-America (if those three aren't from opposite places...) Greek and Roman myths, and all of them state the same -- that a giant flood destroyed the old world and that one family was saved in a big boat or canoe.
2. They contradict each other;
People slowly turned to idol-worshipping overtime. Of course eventually, these legends began to include the names of idols, like "Zeus." But they are not all wrong. This fact is a testament to the flood and its credibility.
3. Copying stories from each other is not the same as "making them up";
Right! They didn't make them up. They slowly branched off from the actual event -- the flood. What is your argument?
4. Every culture in the world believes in ghosts - so by your argument, ghosts of the dead are a reality as well.
That's a bold statement, that everyone believes in ghosts. I'd not say that. But on the other hand, there are things like that in real life. Moses did miracles with God's power, but the pharao's warlocks did a couple of those miracles with satanic power. Solomon (i think) even went to a witch to call up a dead man's spirit. Thinking that if you can't see something then it doesn't exist is a 2-year-old's logic.
OK, That's all for now. I look forward to your reply.