“If the historical basis on which the supposed revelation [the Bible] rested was false, then why should we give any special credence to the ideas resting on that basis?” Can anyone trust a historically false document to be theologically accurate? In veiwing this question it reminded me of the following.... A child and mother are sitting outside and hear the distant thunder.   In curiosity the child ask, “Mother what’s thunder?”   The mother’s response is sincere and confident.   “The god’s are playing!”   She shares with her child an elaborate story where the two laugh and continue their day each coming up with a funny way to explain thunder.   Yet in the context of ancient culture, the story of rain and thunder may have turned into a claim.   If a Canaanite child asked his or her mother “Why do we not hear the thunder and see the rain in the summer?”   The response would be an elaborate story of Baal, the god of rain, becoming prisoner to t...