(July 31, 2011 at 4:47 am)Hannah Wrote: Indomitable because of the feeling that this god is all-knowing, etc. Indomitable because once you've been brain washed into it it's very hard to get the damn thing out of your head. Of course, he was not all-present at first and that is why the Hebrews had to leave Egypt to worship him. The omnipresence came after they were forced to leave Mount Sinai. Somehow, probably through threats of death, the people were brain washed into believing the mountain of god would know if they did anything wrong and would be able to fire his fiery balls as far as would be necessary to exact punishment for wrong doings. People died in these harsh conditions and examples were made (god did it...be warned!). Of course, the priests were working on behalf of the honourable mountain of god so they acted as extra eyes and ears and executioners. I can imagine it would have been a fairly easy transition given the number of deaths of Hebrews in Exodus. Killing off a few thousand to instill fear and obedience would have been nothing in the grand scheme. The volcano terminology carries on throughout the Bible. Jesus's prophets didn't know yahweh's methods of wrath were volcanic but they repeated the OT stories to intill fear of yahweh.Are you serious? The inexistence of a volcano in egipt makes your case stronger? Like the inexistence of proof towards their god proves its existence? Are you trying to beat theists in their own game? Its like you are trying to cover the biggest pile of bullshit around with MORE Bullshit. Good luck with that!
No volcanos in Egypt. I know. I've been researching this for a few months now. This makes the case stronger not weaker. The lack of volcanos in Egypt strenthens the case for not only the Hebrews being in awe of one when they did finally stand close enough to one to see it firing out brimstone, etc, but it also strenthens the case for them having been in Egypt. These people, whoever they were, were volcano naive. There are people who believe they crossed into Saudi. It makes sense given the terrible conditions mentioned in the Bible. The Hebrews were crying all the time, starving and thirsty. Saudi is full of volcanos and has extreme weather/fault lines, etc.
Quote:I just cannot understand how anyone can read Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, etc, and not realise that these people walked towards a volcano, set up camp, gradually moved around the outer circumpherence areas of the volcano and sacrificed animals to this terrifying and majestic entity they were completely ignorant about....the highest hill for as far as the eye can see....the shepperd leading its flock.(bold mine)
The way you start that is a classic start of an argument from ignorance, you should know it, as Pad as already quoted its definition. Besides, here is a fact: People do interpret the bible the way they want, some literaly, some allegorically, you will have a hard time finding 2 equal interpretations (except for literalist ofc).
Quote:It is entirely possible that this one little error did create three enormous religions because this volcano inspired all the terrifying verses that have put the fear of yahweh into so many hearts. There would have been nothing as frightening as a volcano to people who'd never seen one before. They would only have had to stay there for long enough to be terrified to the core and for the 'church' to be established. All that was required for the fear to continue to this day in the hearts and minds of millions was the removal of one word.....volcano.
The way you are irrationally defending that 'volcano' conjecture, not really hearing what people here have to say, to be honest makes me think you are trolling around. Want to be taken seriously? Present your evidence, task you so much failed till now.
