What do you do about the fact that the Torah allows for only 5000 years of human development when the archaeological record points to well over 100,000? How do you explain Noahs global flood or the 40 year sojourn in the desert when no evidence in support of either has been found? What do you do with dinosaurs or the fact of evolution? And other less well-known, but no less significant problems abound including the existence of maculations within the Torah itself and textual witnesses to the Torahs historical development. A wise man follows the truth wherever it takes him, but accepting the 8th principle acts as a blockade against such a journey. The answers offered by archaeologists and Bible critics, many of them compelling, simple and elegant, sit on the other side of the blockade, inaccessible to the Orthodox Jews.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 04:35:27 +0000
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