(November 29, 2008 at 3:38 pm)Psalm 23 Wrote: Did Bobby Henderson appear before large crowds to show off the Flying Spaghetti Monster?He did one better. He released the information on the internet.
Quote:Well, if you're refering to Pastafarianism, you do know that is a parody, right? I'm talking about real ancient documents that claim these men have spoken to the one true God. I put so much faith into these documents because modern archaeaologists are digging up the truth after thousands of years later. If you want evidence. Just ask any Jewish Archaeologist.*facepalm*.
You just don't get it do you? These ancient texts claim that men spoke with God, but what makes that claim accurate??? People lie, they have delusions, they suffer from illness that makes them hallucinate. To put your complete trust that these texts are 100% accurate is to make the massive assumption that the ancient people were 100% truthful or in their right minds when they wrote them down.
How can you make that assumption? What evidence do you have that backs up the claims which we can verify as truth?
Let me put it another way. Say I wrote a book that claimed I spoke to God, and got his commandments. I convince people that the book is the truth, and people believe me (for whatever reason, it's a hypothetical). Thousands of years later, archaeologists discover my original book. What does the book prove, other than I claimed these things and convinced people to believe them? Without knowing about the true origins of my "ancient" manuscript, how would you be able to know if I was truthful or not?
