RE: Literal and Not Literal
September 9, 2019 at 11:27 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2019 at 11:28 pm by Acrobat.)
(September 9, 2019 at 11:18 pm)EgoDeath Wrote:(September 9, 2019 at 11:15 pm)Acrobat Wrote: Patterns of behavior. Deductive reasoning. I expect people who had visions to behave, as other people who had visions to behave, in the similar predictable ways. Unless I have good reason to think other wise, I would expect to see the predicative indicators.
Not if they were from completely different times in the world. Or maybe they could just be two people who have different ideas of how to share a revelatory experience. It seems your only reasoning to think what you think is that you want to think it. You have no real evidence for what you're saying, it's just an opinion, based on your own reasoning.
Unless I have good reasons to think human beings in the past behaved differently when exposed to similar stimuli, than humans beings in the present, then I expect them to follow the same predictable patterns. In fact plenty of people in the past wrote of having visions, etc, including in the Bible. So it does seem that this tendency was present then as it is now.
