It’s not even very good at being that. There is a lot of misinformation, events that are provin false by other historical data and self-contradiction within its pages.
I meant historic document as in a document written at a moment in history, not necessarily an accurate historical account.
Like, Homer wasn’t a historian, but a historian specializing in ancient Greece would certainly read Homer to glean an idea of the beliefs, values, and ideals of the people during Homer’s lifetime.
Modern christians don’t even view the bible as a collection of documents that were written within specific contexts at specific moments in history, they try to remove it from all context and interpret it in a vacuum as if it was all equally applicable today
It’s not even very good at being that. There is a lot of misinformation, events that are provin false by other historical data and self-contradiction within its pages.
I meant historic document as in a document written at a moment in history, not necessarily an accurate historical account.
Like, Homer wasn’t a historian, but a historian specializing in ancient Greece would certainly read Homer to glean an idea of the beliefs, values, and ideals of the people during Homer’s lifetime.
Modern christians don’t even view the bible as a collection of documents that were written within specific contexts at specific moments in history, they try to remove it from all context and interpret it in a vacuum as if it was all equally applicable today