(December 1, 2022 at 11:51 am)Angrboda Wrote: Well, this is the problem I have with Neo. It's fine to approach the bible as containing much more than history, but it's incoherent to approach it as making no historical claims whatsoever. The answer, as always, lies somewhere in the middle. Unfortunately, Neo insists that where he draws the line is objectively defensible and he shits on anybody who dares question his divine wisdom. It's even more unfortunate as Neo's doing so appears to be a transparent case of an interpretational stance and defense of said stance driven by 21st-century political needs that he has, quite irrespective of how they might relate to what is true or can reasonably be defended. In short, Neo is a typical conservative Christian, inventing the God that he needs, as opposed to the God that might be or is.
Remember the manic evangelical who posted here and made bad videos showing how Genesis is correct about creation? I was taught as a child that Methuselah really did live 900 years. Writing fairy tales and rewriting history are very much things people do. So whichever stand a theist takes, including their weak deductive arguments, the world with God looks the same as the world without. I'll take the simpler explanation.
