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Originally Posted by GeoffC
Just because it's in the Bible doesn't necessarily mean anything. Just imagine the World as we now know it was devastated and in a few generations hence, all the surviviors had in book form was (say) Lord of the Rings or The Da Vinci Code; might either of these books affect that future in terms of creating a new religion?
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I'm probably missing the point
, but I'm not sure why establishing the literal truth of the events in a religious text matters. Isn't the significant thing that adherents believe in the texts?
Christians believe in the Bible, they believe the story of Abraham because it is in the Bible.
So it's presence in the Bible
does mean something - it means that Christians (and those of other religions that relate the story) believe it.