RE: God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.
July 30, 2011 at 9:52 am
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2011 at 9:56 am by theVOID.)
(July 29, 2011 at 7:34 pm)Hannah Wrote: I think the suggestion the story of the ten plagues of Egypt being entirely coincidentally reminiscent of the possible fallout of the santorini eruption to be as crazy as the suggestion that it was down to divine intervention. Holy shit......is this forum full of people as illogical as the Christians I've had the misfortune of trying to debate with recently?
You're being vague and speculative. Is it possible? As far as my knowledge of ancient history is concerned, sure. Have you given me any sufficient reason to believe your conclusion is likely true? Absolutely not.
And, for the record, the options available are NOT; (1) It was divine intervention, (2) It was all a volcano. There are many possible explanations even when assuming the biblical narratives are based on real recorded experiences, there are a great many more explanations given their fictional origins.
(July 30, 2011 at 9:12 am)Hannah Wrote: If you said less you might convey more. You contradicted yourself in your post. I never said the Bible should be used as a historical reference. I do, however, believe there is a vein of truth in it but that that vein has been elaborated, mystified and glorified. To say it's useless and shouldn't be used to try to work things out is as bad for free thinking as a Christian who refuses to believe any part of it could be wrong or even elaborated. This is a riddle and everything needs to be considered.
By the way, two thirds of the Habiru names were Semitic. Have you read up about them? It's very interesting reading.
Do you have any methodology for picking which parts have a "vein of truth" and which do not? While I agree that thinking it is entirely fictional is downright absurd the notion that we can easily determine which parts are based on some historic event (such as your volcano example) and which parts are mythology is likewise absurd.
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