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   "Robert B. Winn"  wrote in message   
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   > > > > Robert B. Winn wrote:   
   > > > >   
   > > > >   
   > > > > >>>Why?  Because we did not believe that Hezekiah's tunnel was a   
   hoax   
   > > > > >>>perpetrated by Jerusalem tour guides?   
   > > > > >>   
   > > > > >>Irrelevant to the previous conversation.   Jerusalem has an entire   
   > > > > >>underground tunnel system, can you definitely identify and prove   
   that   
   > >  the   
   > > > > >>tunnel you are on about is Hezekiah's tunnel?   
   > > > > >   
   > > > > >   
   > > > > > It is the only tunnel between Gihon spring and the pool of Siloam.   
   > > > > > Robert B. Winn   
   > > > >   
   > > > > You keep bringing this up. What exactly does this have to do with   
   > > > > anything? How does a tunnel prove the existence of your god? Is   
   there   
   > > > > some solid proof that he dug the tunnel himself?   
   > > >   
   > > > Atheists were saying that there was nothing in existence that could   
   > > > prove that anything written in the Bible is true.  It is written in   
   > > > the Bible that in 701 B.C. a tunnel was dug from Gihon spring to the   
   > > > pool of Siloam.  By coincidence there is a tunnel there today that   
   > > > atheists say is not the tunnel written about in the Bible.   
   > >   
   > > Even if it were the tunnel spoken of in the bible, it doesn't prove it   
   was   
   > > dug in 701 BC.   
   > > The bible mentions the sky, but because there is a sky, that doesn't   
   prove   
   > > that the bible is true.   
   > > You are obfuscating the point on purpose, dishonestly.  Why?   
   >   
   > There was an inscription written by the workers where they met in the   
   > middle of the tunnel written in ancient Hebrew.  Ancient Hebrew was   
   > used before the Babylonian captivity in 600 B.C.  That kind of puts it   
   > within 101 years of the time the Bible says it was dug.   
      
   Did the inscription include anything about Hezekiah?  If he ordered the   
   tunnel dug, the workers would have included a note about his foresight in   
   making such an impossible feat come to pass.  If Hezekiah wasn't mentioned,   
   then I would seriously doubt that he was involved at all, except possibly to   
   take the credit for something that happened to work out well for his rule.   
      
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