[ultimategamer]

if the bible is so flawed, why is it so widely used by nonchristian historians, and why have so many of the prophesies it contains come true/ continue to come true?

But you see, the bible IS flawed. Many things in it just don't make sense. Lets look at the basic most story of Adam and Eve. If they are the 2 first humans, and all human life comes from them (thats my understanding of it), how can we as a species surpass genetic thinning (or whatever term is used) caused by inbreeding? Royalty, for example, has proven countless times in the past that inbreeding causes...special children to be born. Should we all ride the short bus to school then, so to speak, and die out as a species?

Also, with the crusades, in the bible, God has had many important religious figures kill pagan men, enslave the children, and rape the women. How is this different from the crusades? In essense, its not.

Also, for these prophesies, name RECENT (within lets say 10-50 years) that are prophesized in the bible. Enlighten me. Historians use them simply because they must use every single piece of evidence they can to reconstruct our and the worlds history. When historians unearth, lets say, a mesopotamian tablet of a story, it doesn't matter whether or not they think its a fiction or non fiction, they must use it to the best of their abilities to help reconstruct the way things were.