That's the thing, fictitious or not, the bible is more of a code than anything else that uses the "lead by example approach. Surely we atheists don't take Napoleon Bonaparte seriously when he said "an army marches on its stomach" do we? No. We know he is refering to logistical effects of military activities, in which you could describe any number of ways. Hell we can do this ourselves. "The soldier is never far from his oxen", "the oil and sheath always trail thy sword, where ever it may strike", "there is no smoking gun without a cold bullet to load it".
Of course I'm not saying its accurate to historical reference but, consider how people back then may have tried writing about air craft shooting AMRAAMs. Spears of fire with the guile of a hawk? You can word practically anything into literary art and in the end, have it only mean "just don't send you troops out without supplies, dummy" as a moral code of practice, not an actual record. And this is how theist whome are being criticized will usually react. It didn't matter if David and Goliath actually happened, what matters is the moral of the story. That's what I'm tryi g to get at. Omnipotent or not, all that matters to the biblical view is that God is supposed to be greater than man. End of story. Thus when we are arguing against that, they find it easy to beat around the bush when we ask for statistical evidence of just how omnipotent this God is.
Of course I'm not saying its accurate to historical reference but, consider how people back then may have tried writing about air craft shooting AMRAAMs. Spears of fire with the guile of a hawk? You can word practically anything into literary art and in the end, have it only mean "just don't send you troops out without supplies, dummy" as a moral code of practice, not an actual record. And this is how theist whome are being criticized will usually react. It didn't matter if David and Goliath actually happened, what matters is the moral of the story. That's what I'm tryi g to get at. Omnipotent or not, all that matters to the biblical view is that God is supposed to be greater than man. End of story. Thus when we are arguing against that, they find it easy to beat around the bush when we ask for statistical evidence of just how omnipotent this God is.
"He who so forgets history is doomed to repeat it." - Churchill
