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Of course 1 cor 7 "27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not,to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast in His presence"
Only if they are a terrible liar.
What about when two people are very consistent with their stories, but their stories conflict, so they can't both be right? Heck, one person could be mistaken about certain details, but no less convinced of their accuracy than the more accurate person.
The lie detector test is, in and of itself, a lie. It doesn't actually work consistently. Basically put, a liar that keeps calm will fool the test into thinking they are being honest, and a truthful person that is stressed out (as just about anyone accused of a crime would be) will often cause the machine to register their truthful responses as lies.
-_- no. This is simply incorrect. Stress can cause and worsen many health conditions, but it isn't a cause of cancer. Lying in and of itself definitely doesn't cause any diseases.
Jesus is talking about seeds that are sown upon the ground. There maybe smaller seeds but they are not sown the way mustard seeds are.
We were talking about ways that people can know the truth. Jesus teaches us that the truth sets us free from the bondage of sin. Those who know the truth are free and those who do not know the truth are in bondage.
Yes after 3500 years the Books written by Moses continue to be accurate and true.
If you use fake numbers on a tax return the computer will spit it out and you risk being investigated. Computers can be programed to know what is fake and what is real.
I think you make a fundamental error in your reasoning. While your statement above is true in a sense, it doesn't automatically follow that everything that is consistent is true. One could also lie consistently if they are a very good liar. Most well written novels are consistent, does that then make them true? We may expect consistency in truth but it's a logical fallacy to say all that is consistent is true.
Truth is a philosophical or religious concept not a scientific one. Science doesn't make truth claims. Science makes theories based on our best knowledge. Theories are not held beyond correction on the basis of new knowledge or information. It would indeed seem odd for textbooks not to be revised on the basis of new discoveries and knowledge. In this case the lack of change would could be taken as a rejection of truth.
Not a straw man. These kind of statements are known as temporally indexed truths. E.g. Today is 23rd October 2017. This statement is only true today and never again after that. So the date today is a constantly changing truth, as in there is new date every day. Alternately the statement "I was born in 1979" is eternally true and unchanging.
Archeology has spend over 100 years digging through the ruins of Bible sites and everything they find is consistent with the history we read in the Bible. For example they found * a Scytho-Iranian arrowhead, of the type used by the Babylonian army of Nebuchadnezzar that destroyed the First Temple in 586 BCE. Very few such arrowheads have been found in Jerusalem. http://tmsifting.org/sifting/media/inn14-4-05.htmcc There are plenty of artifacts found on the temple mount to verify that the history we read in our Bible is accurate and true.
