Bible History

[Anna]

And Christ wasn't crucified in 33 AD...

[Circle_Master]

And Christ wasn't crucified in 33 AD...

maybe not. Scripture doesn't say what year. It doesn't really matter either what year it was. Our best scholars have concluded 33 A.D. though, and I agree with them.

[Paladin D]

maybe not.  Scripture doesn't say what year.  It doesn't really matter either what year it was.  Our best scholars have concluded 33 A.D. though, and I agree with them.

I believe it's 33.3AD. :D ;)

[Anna]

bull.

no serious historian ever says history is factual.

Circle, if historians don't deal in fact, they necessarily deal in fiction. It's an either/or proposition. Events are either true or they're false.

Protestants have been substituting historical fiction for fact for the last 487 years. But that doesn't change the facts. The true facts don't change. A real, genuine historian is trained to discern fact from fiction and to report the facts.

I know of no distinguished historians -- honored for academic excellence in their field -- who graduated from Bible colleges. Students don't get a first-class, academic education at a Bible college. Instead, they get reinforcement for their narrow, distorted, sectarian, worldview based on yet another interpretation of the same Bible. Their PhD's also graduated from Bible colleges! Baptist Ph.D.'s don't agree with Presbyterian Ph.D.'s! The "history" taught in a Nazarene Bible College is not the same "history" taught in a Pentecostal Bible College, is not the same "history" taught in a Seventh-Day Adventist Bible College. No wonder you don't think history is factual. The history you've been taught is not factual -- It's distorted to match your school's ideology.

Webster: HISTORY: 1. the branch of knowledge dealing with past events. 2. a continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc., usually written as a chronological account. 3. the aggregate of past events. 4. the record of past events and times, especially in connection with the human race. 5. and the list goes on . . .

Webster: FACT: 1. something that actually exists; reality; truth. 2. something known to exist or to have happened. 3. a truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true. 4. something said to be true or supposed to have happened.

Real historians deal in facts (definitions 1, 2, and 3). Many Protestant "facts" fall under definition # 4.

Pax Christi. <><

[God Conquers]

no serious historian ever says history is factual.

Interesting, so you obviously disagree with EVERY HISTORIAN WHO EVER LIVED.

History is factual. It is by definition the study of what actually happenned. We may not know everything for certain, but whatever certainty we DO have is backed up by FACT. By Historical DOCUMENT and SOURCES. These are FACTS.

I am a student of history. Every single one of my classmates and all of my professers would disagree with you.

History is a fact. You're living it.