As a former Pentecostal, I was taught that God was unchanging. When I read the Bible cover-to-cover, I saw a changing/evolving God. I didn't conclude that God was not real, but that, plus the barbarity and a few contradictions I spotted along the way convinced me that the Bible was not inspired by some theodic being.
I suspect that the response to incontrovertible facts about the origin and development of the Hebrew conception of God will usually be to retreat to a more rarified and less falsifiable conception of God. I've noticed in debates where the goal of the theist side is to prove the existence of the God of Christianity, that they never get past trying to prove the God of deism.
I suspect that the response to incontrovertible facts about the origin and development of the Hebrew conception of God will usually be to retreat to a more rarified and less falsifiable conception of God. I've noticed in debates where the goal of the theist side is to prove the existence of the God of Christianity, that they never get past trying to prove the God of deism.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
