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>There are many ways one can authenticate the Bible. All of which, I'm sure you would discount as nonsense. And most of which I'm sure you're already aware.>>
>>Name a couple that are not circular (i.e. do not use the Bible itself to authenticate the Bible).
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>Here are some from a fairly dependable website:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/bible.aspYou are not reading. I said not circular (i.e. do not use the Bible itself to authenticate the Bible).
That website is full of circular reasoning.
The is a section called " Jesus Christ on the infallibility of Scripture" .
Another one called "The Authority o Scripture" that says:
Moses often testified that his writings were from God:
Exodus 24:4: ‘Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said …’
Matthew 19:3–6:
3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?’
4 ‘Haven’t you read,’ he replied, ‘that at the beginning the Creator `made them male and female,’
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.’
And so on. ALL from the Bible (Old and New Testaments).
Maybe it would do you some good to read "How We Believe" by Michael Shermer ISBN 0-7167-3561-X