A Christian apologetic video called "10 INCREDIBLE BIBLE FACTS to blow your mind" was posted to the "Philosophy of Religion" G+ Group. Bible click-bait is not "Philosophy of Religion." But I took the time to respond anyways.
1: So what? Harry Potter sold a lot of books too. Doesn't make it true.
2: Lots of authors, but "the Bible does not contradict itself" Yes. It does. Lots. There are whole indices of the contradictions. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html
But even if it were, a cursory understanding of how the Bible was formed (by committee, from a much larger set of texts) shows that it could be just good editing, not good writing.
3: Again. So what? This is just false. Book of Mormon says that god said things too. https://www.lds.org/ensign/1988/01/the-book-of-mormon-is-the-word-of-god?lang=eng
4: What a cute legend.
5. We're going down-hill here. This is pretty wildly speculative and vague. I wrote a blog about how this sort of post-hoc rationality works. The prophecies of Dr. Seuss
http://www.atheistengineer.com/2015/06/the-of-dr-seuss.html
"Jesus is Coming Back Soon." This has been the Christian claim
6. The Bible is true?! LMFAO. Where are the four corners of the earth? Stop pretending a circle is the same as a sphere.
Wow. Look under the water and you can see rocky formations that resemble what's over the land.
You're doing science just like the Muslims do it!
https://twitter.com/AtheistEngineer/status/671157215210766336
Step 1: Look at what's real.
Step 2: Find places where the Bible can be interpreted to suggest those things.
7. Ha ha ha. So there's some facts which agree with history? I'll defer to the usual "Spider Man happens in New York, but it doesn't make Spider Man true."
The Biblical writings are "viable"? Might not be false isn't a very good basis.
8. Accurate to what?! Oh. The disagreements between different scribes are "minor" in the opinion of some biblical historians? The 31,000
9. Methamphetamine has also changed people's lives. People who use it are transformed. They become committed to methamphetamine. Does that make it true? The video goes on to cite a few anecdotes about people who were born and raised Christian, then happened to do good things anyways. Lots of people find Jesus at their lowest -- because that's when they're most vulnerable to indoctrination.
10. There's a corrupted Bible? God hasn't protected "his word" very well, eh? Imagine if that happened EARLY in the Bible's history. The result would be an unreliable Bible today!
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