Made up?

[Seeker]

I have a question regarding how I should respond to someone. He keeps saying that the bible was made up from beggining to end and I don't know how to respond. Please inform me on your views on how I should respond.

Thanks, seeker

[Danieltwotwenty]

Well the burden of proof lies with him/her to prove their claim or I would say “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” - Christopher Hitchens.

[neo-x]

Such claims are only made by ignorant people who don't know anything about this. My advice, don't debate with such a person. Debating with a fool is like going thermonuclear war and the only way to win is not to play. Whoever said that, I agree with him.

[Silvertusk]

Such claims are only made by ignorant people who don't know anything about this. My advice, don't debate with such a person. Debating with a fool is like going thermonuclear war and the only way to win is not to play. Whoever said that, I agree with him.

Wasn't that from the film Wargames with Matthew Broderick?

[neo-x]

Such claims are only made by ignorant people who don't know anything about this. My advice, don't debate with such a person. Debating with a fool is like going thermonuclear war and the only way to win is not to play. Whoever said that, I agree with him.

Wasn't that from the film Wargames with Matthew Broderick?

You're right, I looked it up.

[WannaLearn]

Seeker would you like to know just for your understanding of the bible so you know how it was put together. I agree with the other guys don't argue with him unless he really wants to know not just him trying his best to prove you wrong.

[B. W.]

I have a question regarding how I should respond to someone. He keeps saying that the bible was made up from beggining to end and I don't know how to respond. Please inform me on your views on how I should respond.

Thanks, seeker

Ask him - who made up that thought for him - where did he hear it from?

Or go into the textual evidence itself.

The person asking such thing - maybe looking for truth and will investigate it honestly, while, others are as the bible defines them in Proverbs - a fool.

Present the evidence and let it go at that.

Look up some resources too like the ones from here:

http://www.godandscience.org/apologetic ... bible.html
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[Metacrock]

I have a question regarding how I should respond to someone. He keeps saying that the bible was made up from beggining to end and I don't know how to respond. Please inform me on your views on how I should respond.

Thanks, seeker

that's just an empty rhetorical phrase. Ask him what he means by it? If he thinks all the incidents are fictional ask him how he explains the fall of Babylon to Persia?

[PeteSinCA]

Concur with B.W. and Meta. Ask your friend what he means, to explain what he means by "all made up". The conversation may not go very far - he may just by like a squid squirting ink, with no substance behind the ink, but starting generally will help you see whether there's any path for purposeful discussion, without taking things thermonuclear (OTOH, if your friend does go instantaneously from zero to thermonuclear, maybe it wasn't a friendship that was likely to last).