Camels Are Latest Attack on Bible

The folks who are desperate to disprove the Bible are at it again!  This time using camels as a weapon.

Of course with all the serious problems facing the world, one would think the main stream media wouldn't even bother picking up a story like this...but such is not the case.  Now even the New York Times couldn't help but pick up the story to help all of us idiots realize once and for all that the Bible is full of errors and is not a historical book.

There are too many camels in the Bible, out of time and out of place.

Camels probably had little or no role in the lives of such early Jewish patriarchs as Abraham, Jacob and Joseph, who lived in the first half of the second millennium B.C., and yet stories about them mention these domesticated pack animals more than 20 times. Genesis 24, for example, tells of Abraham’s servant going by camel on a mission to find a wife for Isaac.

These anachronisms are telling evidence that the Bible was written or edited long after the events it narrates and is not always reliable as verifiable history. These camel stories “do not encapsulate memories from the second millennium,” said Noam Mizrahi, an Israeli biblical scholar, “but should be viewed as back-projections from a much later period.”

Dr. Mizrahi likened the practice to a historical account of medieval events that veers off to a description of “how people in the Middle Ages used semitrailers in order to transport goods from one European kingdom to another.”

For two archaeologists at Tel Aviv University, the anachronisms were motivation to dig for camel bones at an ancient copper smelting camp in the Aravah Valley in Israel and in Wadi Finan in Jordan. They sought evidence of when domesticated camels were first introduced into the land of Israel and the surrounding region.

“One should be careful not to rush to the conclusion that the new archaeological findings automatically deny any historical value from the biblical stories,” Dr. Mizrahi said in an email. “Rather, they established that these traditions were indeed reformulated in relatively late periods after camels had been integrated into the Near Eastern economic system. But this does not mean that these very traditions cannot capture other details that have an older historical background.”

Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/science/camels-had-no-business-in-genesis.html?_r=0

I can just hear your child's college professor right now...."You see students, this information that is PROVEN by these researchers is just one other error that the Bible has.  God, if there is a God, isn't in the business of telling people how to live.  If he wanted to do that he would just come down and tell us himself...rather than entrust his story to a silly book written by dozens of men centuries after the fact.  So any of you who grew up with nice Sunday school stories should just leave them at that...nice stories!!...no different that Hansel and Gretel, or Aesop's Fables.  But the real enemy to all of us is the deluded people who CLING to the Bible as truth...and then try to shove it down every one else's throats!  In reality they are no different than the Taliban or Al Qaeda!"

And then your child comes home from 4 yrs of college after listening to numerous atheist professors who are CLEARLY MORE INTELLIGENT than their fuddy-duddy parents....and you have just one other reason why the Church in America is dying a very quick death...as somewhere around 70-80% of our children want NOTHING to do with church and/or religion.

And even more sad....MOST parents of these kids have VERY LITTLE IDEA as to what the Bible even says...because they have never read it!...so how can they possibly stand firm and defend it?

I have said it before, but I'll say it again...please read Pastor Erwin Lutzer's book titled WHEN A NATION FORGETS GOD.  It will help to possibly prepare us for what is to come...if the Lord tarries.