(August 21, 2015 at 5:05 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Necro... oh well...The difference between Noah and Moses was although Noah did formulate some laws they were relatively minor and Noah wasn't classified as a God. Moses wrote all kinds of BS and he forced people to comply upon penalty of death. Moses was therefore classified as a god but not the God. Jesus was classified as the son of God because he claimed that people who didn't follow his new rules would be tossed into the lake of fire.
The other day, a thought came across my mind.... it's a dangerous thing, but it happens, once in a while!
For a catholic, what is the relevance of the OT?
Also, assuming that the OT contains some truth, and there has ever been only one god and this god presented itself to the first humans, then how did people come up with all the others? Specially, knowing that the one single god popped up every once in a while...
How long would that have taken? Maybe we can look into the book for that? How many generations passed in between Noah (the sole survivor, along with his family, of the flood and someone firmly convinced of the single god notion, which his family should also be) and Moses? I seem to remember the NT having one or two genealogies of J.C. with a mandatory passage through Noah.
Are there enough generation to produce the whole population of Egypt? And the religion of Egypt and convince every egyptian of those other gods? And also produce some 2 million hebrews and enslave them?
So for religious purposes a god is some character who formulates a system of behavioral rules and will kill everyone who violates them. In primitive societies if someone breaks a taboo he's tossed into the nearest volcano or he gets his heart cut out.
James Madison could have been considered a god since he wrote the Constitution but he didn't toss in a couple dozen religious commandments and impose the death penalty for people who violate them. If he had he would be known as the first American prophet if not the American god. That's the way it worked in ancient times.