(January 1, 2013 at 10:33 am)FallentoReason Wrote:(January 1, 2013 at 6:00 am)Mark 13:13 Wrote: good question, but far from moving away from a personal God I would say Christian have moved even closer to a personal God. How much more personal can you get than Jesus Christ. As far as why to hold on to the musings of ancients mmmh I would suggest that although our knowledge of the Universe continues to refine the issues of Life/death, good/evil, suffering etc etc surely still occupy us today but maybe not in such an immanent way as it did them so by keeping the words we have access to their some of their thinking and can still have the opportunity to listen to them. Just because a Jungle native tells me that the sun is the chariot of the great spagetti monster in the sky does not mean if he tells me the sun sets in the east and points to where east is without a compass I wont accept he knows where east is. Also I would ask you if the words were useless why do we still have them when so much other material has disappeared?
Even Jesus stands on shaky ground if you want to try and assimilate Christianity with reality. How can it be that Jesus is redeeming the world of the sins that metaphorically entered "through one man"? What does that even mean now?
As for scripture having survived... why is it that the Greek Iliad and Odyssey, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Mayan Popol Vuh etc etc survived? According to your logic, this is some sort of proof that these gods exist.
Well not exactly ; logic isn't the best phrase as it seems to require to much explaining and proofs so as to make a conversation a chore. let me say i propose the hypothesis that people generally try to keep, hold onto, preserve Items that have some value or worth to them. So just like the texts you mentioned the Biblical texts were kept for the value the owners had in them. I was not holding the survival being the proof of truth.
