Quote:fr0d0 Wrote:God tells Moses in Exodus 33 that no one can see him, but only see where he has been. To me this is a definite statement regarding proof of God not being possible.
The Old Testament ,written by many persons as it is proved by the at last four styles of writing named E,J,P and D ,written and rewritten along history for many times, can by no means be quotted as proving something one way or another concerning the existence of God.
The only thing it can prove is it's own existence as a book written by men and not by Moses or by God himself or by any supranatural entity.
Moses for sure has not written the book because the Deuteronomy describes his death.
What the Bible proves is that the very notion of God emanates fom a man-written book which was written ,for all we can reasonable think, following orders emmitted by leading factors of certain antique hebrew societies (may be kings or priests) in pursue of political,social,economical,spiritual ...purposes.
Bibliologists presume that the Old testament , in it's canonic format ,was written in the 6-th century BC
during the reign of king Joshiahu of the kingdom of Yehudah, with the purpose to prove his right as descendent of the house of king David to the northern ex -Israel kingdom now conquerred by the Assyrians.
It beats me when I see at the evangelists tv channel lead by Pat Robertson ,how preachers speak in front of a huge public keeping in front of them the Bible and quoting fom various texts in a such serious manner about events which took place ,of the kind of the above optical phenomenon between God and Moses ,as if they were anounced just yesterday on CNN or Fox News or BBC.
In a serious debate it is ,in my opinion no place for quoting not a single sentence from the Bible unless the debate is of a theological kind just misplaced in an atheist forum.
