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Originally Posted by dr wadd
Just because it is written in a book doesn`t make it true. The majority of the bible was even written contemporaneously to the events that are described in it. So you have a book written on a basis of recollections, with no guarantee that all of those recollections are accurate, by people with an agenda to promote.
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Yes but when you have accounts of these actions from
other sources not connected to the Bible (such as Augustus Caeser's diaries, hardly a religion man yet wrote a LOT about jesus) it tends to lend a lot more weight to the argument.
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Rebelling against an oppressive state in the cause of freedom would be different to rebelling against a justified law simply for the sake of it.
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Who said they rebelled against an opressive state?