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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.asp>
>You 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.
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So...you found NONE on that site that were not circular? I know it includes SOME circular arguments - but - I also know it includes some that are not. Perhaps you could answer some of those here...
>The is a section called " Jesus Christ on the infallibility of Scripture" .
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>Another one called "The Authority o Scripture" that says:
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>Moses often testified that his writings were from God:
>Exodus 24:4: ‘Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said …’
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>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.’
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>And so on. ALL from the Bible (Old and New Testaments).
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>Maybe it would do you some good to read "How We Believe" by Michael Shermer ISBN 0-7167-3561-X