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William Grassie  The Sciences of Sacred Scriptures  Posted:
02/13/2012 6:11 am  The vast majority of religious believers
hold on to scriptures as sacred, as profound revelations, as
precious guides to the mysteries of life and death. Believers
believe that their stories are true -- for instance, that Moses
was a real person who led the Hebrews out of slavery and
received the Torah directly from God on Mount Sinai or that
there really was a Prince Siddhartha Gautama who searched for
and found enlightenment in the sixth century B.C.E. Moreover,
they believe that contained in these ancient stories is
information vital to contemporary humans.  The truth is, we
really don't know much about the historical Moses or the
historical Buddha. The evidence for these persons from the
ancient past is quite sparse and filtered largely through
centuries of oral history, mythological elaborations and
sectarian biases, before they were even recorded in written form
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