The preacher should not look upon these disciplines as otherwise, for the Bible as a
collection of ancient documents surely deserves the compliment of objective examination as much as other literature.
Historical criticism is the process by which modern scholars examine the
text of ancient documents and try to determine when they were truly written and whether or not they were authored by the person whose name is on the document.
-- yes, hospital is a good analogy, human nature is flawed and
plenty of ancient documents support this... people can question whether Christianity or some other hospital or no hospital is better.
Finally, we learn from Robert Langdon, the novel's hero, that the so - called Priory of Sion's aim has been to present «to the world
thousands of ancient documents as scientific evidence that the New Testament is false testimony» (451).
----- I will not bore you with all of the proofs such as --- the #
of ancient documents of the Bible, of its contemporary historians, archeology, etc, verses other religions.