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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Atheist OP asks a theological question about Christianity's views on Old Testament personages.

Numerous PPs give responses to theological question.

Atheist OP rejects all responses because they are based on Bible and not on non-Biblically based texts.

Christianity is based on the Bible, ergo its theology is based on the Bible, particularly when it concerns personages appearing in the Bible.

Here's a riddle:  How does one answer a Christian theological question about Biblical personages with a response based strictly on non-Biblical influenced texts?

This is like asking a question about people's rights in America and refusing to accept any answer based on texts that reference the Constitution.[/quote]

There are numerous disagreements about biblical meaning among Christians and between Christians and Jews.  There are also  facts about how the bible was written and archeology that are known to academics and are not a matter of  belief.  Like any other academic field, biblical scholars use critical thinking and evidence to understand their field.  The view that the whole bible is about Christ is a Christian devotional view, not an academic view.  I think that any professor of the new or old testament in a non-fundamentalist academic setting (e.g. not Bob Jones or Liberty university) would not accept that point of view.  There is nothing in academic religion to back it up.

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The original question specifically asked a question about the[b] CHRISTIAN theology of Abraham[/b].  You then fault the thoughtful answers because you do not think they are ones that Jews or Muslims would accept. Well if they bought into Christian theology, they wouldn't be Jews or Muslims, would they?

BTW archaeology is very hit and miss--what part of the historical record a particular site illuminates is really a matter of luck.  If would be easier to find a needle in a haystack than to find direct archaeological evidence of a specific person, especially one who was not a ruler of a settled civilization, who lived three millenia ago.

You cannot use absence of an archaeological evidence as proof of absence.

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I think you're referring to apologetics -- a field which defends particular religious beliefs.

Academic theology does not adhere to the tenets of any particular religious belief.  It's not faith-based.  It makes statements, develops theories and and draws conclusion like any other academic field, irrespective of the "beliefs."
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