RE: On this world if humans ceased to exist would god cease to exist?
November 23, 2017 at 8:58 pm
@OP it is often said that, if mankind was to wake up tomorrow fully amnesiac, with all books and sources of information gone... Science would be rediscovered pretty much as it is, while religion (if any developed) would be different.
This here, ladies and gentlemen, is what it's called a retcon:
noun
1.
(in a film, television series, or other fictional work) a piece of new information that imposes a different interpretation on previously described events, typically used to facilitate a dramatic plot shift or account for an inconsistency.
The writers of the Bible were writing a story that was floating around in oral form...
As with all orally transmitted tales, it accrued mistakes/extra bits/omitted parts.
Omissions are lost forever.
Mistakes make themselves noted in the famous contradictions.
Extra bits were used to draw in the listeners... And make them dream and make them spread the story.
Writing it down, however, crystallized it as it was at the time of writing... And at the place of writing.
To say that this hodgepodge of stories was inspired by God is a way that the religion came up with to properly legitimize the stories, in spite of the inconsistencies.
Sell the "inspired" thing for two or three generations, and all subsequent folk will believe it and never even dream of questioning it.
If people would stop propagating and perpetuating the religious beliefs, within two or three generations there would be nearly no belief systems in place.
The whole ecclesiastical class would have nothing to do and would disappear.. How to employ all those people?...I don't know, maybe that's why governments tolerate it.
Would the common folk be happier? Would they be calmer? Would there be more political/social unrest? Would people be kinder or angrier?
(November 20, 2017 at 3:11 pm)Godscreated Wrote:(November 18, 2017 at 8:05 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: So....... god wrote the bible? Is that now your position?
As I have said many times God inspired the writers of the books of the Bible, please keep up with what I post in the past and you wouldn't have to ask such silly questions.
GC
This here, ladies and gentlemen, is what it's called a retcon:
noun
1.
(in a film, television series, or other fictional work) a piece of new information that imposes a different interpretation on previously described events, typically used to facilitate a dramatic plot shift or account for an inconsistency.
The writers of the Bible were writing a story that was floating around in oral form...
As with all orally transmitted tales, it accrued mistakes/extra bits/omitted parts.
Omissions are lost forever.
Mistakes make themselves noted in the famous contradictions.
Extra bits were used to draw in the listeners... And make them dream and make them spread the story.
Writing it down, however, crystallized it as it was at the time of writing... And at the place of writing.
To say that this hodgepodge of stories was inspired by God is a way that the religion came up with to properly legitimize the stories, in spite of the inconsistencies.
Sell the "inspired" thing for two or three generations, and all subsequent folk will believe it and never even dream of questioning it.
If people would stop propagating and perpetuating the religious beliefs, within two or three generations there would be nearly no belief systems in place.
The whole ecclesiastical class would have nothing to do and would disappear.. How to employ all those people?...I don't know, maybe that's why governments tolerate it.
Would the common folk be happier? Would they be calmer? Would there be more political/social unrest? Would people be kinder or angrier?
