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Originally Posted by Simmy
As usual when you bring up these kinds of things the train runs off the track in a hurry. People have a hard time focusing on one issue when it comes to the Bible or Politics.
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Actually it was more a matter that we found the question so lame that we decided to have some fun instead.
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It was a simple question. Do you think that Ephraim and Manasseh are England and the America?
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And the simple answer is "No". Why? Because there is no real evidence that would lead anyone who can actually think to reach that conclusion. It's like Lost Atlantis and all the other half-science-half-religion gobbledygook.
Even if you believe the Bible implicitly there is nothing there to suggest that the "lost tribes" ended up anywhere outside of Persia and Assyria. Of course some of them would end up travelling, since a certain amount of people do that. But whole tribes becoming particular western nations? Not likely.
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I have checked both the pro and con side of this subject. Like the many samples I pointed out in my last post, none of which seem to have caught any ones eye. One the con side most who don't believe it simple state they don't believe it because they don't trust the bible to begin with or because the head of their church tells they not to believe it. More power to them. But as usual they can't really put up much of discussion but only finds ways of attacking what you say with little thought attached to it.
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On the other hand it's easy to denigrate a statement of opposition with that kind of dismissal. If every source presented gives nothing but make believe it doesn't need disproving.
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If a source is of little value...Or do we just believe anything in print?
That US News report you listed says right up front "Professors don't want students using it as a main source but admit it might be a good starting point"
I would agree with that, not everything in wikipedia is wrong. The trouble is many simply believe what's on the page.
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Part of the problem is that people who write books don't even have to answer to others, as Wiki writers do. Anybody can claim anything he wants in a book, and unless he shows real concrete evidence for his claims it's all hot air.