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Are you asking if the Bible proves there was a flood? for exampleOften when empiricists ask theists to prove their assertions they quote their religion's holy book. But does a Bible prove the claims the book makes?
Or Twilight the existence of sparkly day-walking vampires?
God wrote the Bible so does that not prove God? After a few pages of a book can you not know Hemingway from Twain, of poetry not Emerson from Poe, of music not the Beetles from Coltrane? Maybe it is clearer in translation (KJV) than in its original tongue. If one reads New Testament before the Old Testament that would definitely confuse the matter. Even so is not the word of God distinguishable from the hand of the son of man?Are you asking if the Bible proves there was a flood? for exampleOften when empiricists ask theists to prove their assertions they quote their religion's holy book. But does a Bible prove the claims the book makes?
Right. Or anything at all, from specific events to whether or not God exists.
Do the Harry Potter books for example prove the existence of Hogwarts?
God wrote the Bible so does that not prove God? After a few pages of a book can you not know Hemingway from Twain, of poetry not Emerson from Poe, of music not the Beetles from Coltrane? Maybe it is clearer in translation (KJV) than in its original tongue. If one reads New Testament before the Old Testament that would definitely confuse the matter. Even so is not the word of God distinguishable from the hand of the son of man?Are you asking if the Bible proves there was a flood? for exampleOften when empiricists ask theists to prove their assertions they quote their religion's holy book. But does a Bible prove the claims the book makes?
Right. Or anything at all, from specific events to whether or not God exists.
Do the Harry Potter books for example prove the existence of Hogwarts?
I talked to God before I read the Bible. Unfortunately I can not speak to it from the other way around.God wrote the Bible so does that not prove God? After a few pages of a book can you not know Hemingway from Twain, of poetry not Emerson from Poe, of music not the Beetles from Coltrane? Maybe it is clearer in translation (KJV) than in its original tongue. If one reads New Testament before the Old Testament that would definitely confuse the matter. Even so is not the word of God distinguishable from the hand of the son of man?Are you asking if the Bible proves there was a flood? for exampleOften when empiricists ask theists to prove their assertions they quote their religion's holy book. But does a Bible prove the claims the book makes?
Right. Or anything at all, from specific events to whether or not God exists.
Do the Harry Potter books for example prove the existence of Hogwarts?
What in the Bible strikes you as being from a god as opposed to from Man?
An example of a book which was written the same time period as the Old Testament?So if I write a book and claim it's from God everyone should believe me? Like they did when Joseph Smith made that very claim and Mormonism came into being? Or when Mohammed did, or the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc.?
Just because you say it's from a god doesn't make it so. And just because it's been incorporated into your society doesn't make it true. Been writing fanciful tales for as long as we've been writing at all. Why do we automatically give credence to religious books when fictional ones from the same period exist? How do we know which is which? Especially when religious ones are even more fanciful than deliberate fictional works?
An example of a book which was written the same time period as the Old Testament?So if I write a book and claim it's from God everyone should believe me? Like they did when Joseph Smith made that very claim and Mormonism came into being? Or when Mohammed did, or the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc.?
Just because you say it's from a god doesn't make it so. And just because it's been incorporated into your society doesn't make it true. Been writing fanciful tales for as long as we've been writing at all. Why do we automatically give credence to religious books when fictional ones from the same period exist? How do we know which is which? Especially when religious ones are even more fanciful than deliberate fictional works?
Yes I have. Please give me your choice of works. There are several. Plato would be a logical choice but even the mention of that is high blasphemy.An example of a book which was written the same time period as the Old Testament?So if I write a book and claim it's from God everyone should believe me? Like they did when Joseph Smith made that very claim and Mormonism came into being? Or when Mohammed did, or the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc.?
Just because you say it's from a god doesn't make it so. And just because it's been incorporated into your society doesn't make it true. Been writing fanciful tales for as long as we've been writing at all. Why do we automatically give credence to religious books when fictional ones from the same period exist? How do we know which is which? Especially when religious ones are even more fanciful than deliberate fictional works?
Have to look them up again, but I recently referred to Chinese 'sex manuals' going back 5,000 years ago, so you know, things like that.
What? Did you just compare the word of God to a cave painting? You are kind of missing the point here.If we include cave paintings, the history of writing and telling stories goes back tens of thousands of years.
What? Did you just compare the word of God to a cave painting? You are kind of missing the point here.If we include cave paintings, the history of writing and telling stories goes back tens of thousands of years.
give it a try....we'll check back in 2000 years and see if anyone remembers you.....So if I write a book and claim it's from God everyone should believe me? Like they did when Joseph Smith made that very claim and Mormonism came into being? Or when Mohammed did, or the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc.?
what message did they give us?......If we include cave paintings, the history of writing and telling stories goes back tens of thousands of years.
A message somewhat less tedious than biblical tales of supernatural entities returning to once again wipe humanity from the planet.what message did they give us?......If we include cave paintings, the history of writing and telling stories goes back tens of thousands of years.
