(September 13, 2023 at 10:52 pm)Data Wrote:(September 13, 2023 at 10:40 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: Of course I don't believe it. But at least with the description of god in the Bible I don't have a moving target. I just read it right off the scroll. I describe myself as anti-theist in relation to the god described in the bible. If believers have another god I'll take a crack at it too, but they have to write it down so I'm not chasing my tail.
(Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one’s heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend.
The Bible describes a god as anything or anyone mighty or venerated. Examples, Jehovah, Jesus, Satan, Moses, the judges of Israel, angels, Dagon, Tammuz, Baal, Ashtoreth, etc.
Anti-theist is a good choice. Better than atheist, in my opinion. More accurately descriptive.
Sorry, sir, but no.
In Hebrew culture there are many "divine beings" .... when the Witch of Endor conjures the shade of Samuel for Saul in Kings, (which was forbidden ... to disturb a dead shade), she is asked what she sees ... only a witch could see a shade, and she tells Saul that she sees a "divine being rising up". The Hebrew pantheon had any number of "divine beings", but they were not gods. These divine beings lived in heaven with Yahweh, and not in Sheol where all other dead shades lived. In recent scholarship, there are a number of PhD theses written about the "heavenly host" who are all "divine beings" but they are certainly not gods, nor do any of them equate to the status of Yahweh.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist