(September 25, 2011 at 6:09 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(September 25, 2011 at 5:59 am)Stimbo Wrote: Salty expressed his her acceptance of the shape of the world, a physical fact which is at odds with the picture presented in the bible that Salty holds to be "historical and divine". Clearly it is neither, at least on this point.Historically debateable I'd agree.
(Thank you for correcting me viz. Salty's personal pronoun. Very much obliged.)
It's also debatable regarding its divine nature, unless you concede the point that it's not at all divine. The descriptions of the universe as presented in the bible are, in many if not all cases, demonstrably false, and any that are not false would not be anything unknown to the primitive culture that spawned it. The Earth is not flat, nor could it ever rest upon pillars; stars are not lamps hanging from the sky that can be shaken loose and fall to Earth; the Moon is not a light; the sky does not have windows that can open to let the rain through; and so on. Any divine source for these revelations would know how laughably wrong such things are. So either the biblical accounts are not divinely revealed or there lies some other motive for this divine source to reveal them in such a silly way.
I note in passing that the more outlandish claims in the biblical accounts are indistinguishable from similar stories in other, older mythologies. It's almost as if it's all made up by humans guessing about the nature of the world in which they lived, isn't it?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
