(February 13, 2014 at 5:05 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: God was always meant to be non-physical from the beginning it's not something new that has been invented to count the killer God argument from atheism. Perhaps it wasn't a killer argument to begin with.
That's an interesting way to put it: "God was always meant to be non-physical from the beginning."
I agree that it likely wasn't meant to counter atheists' arguments, since there were precious few atheists in antiquity. I suspect it was meant to gull and terrify an ignorant people whom the priests wished to control and exploit. After all, an unverifiable and unfalsifiable bogeyman is much more effective than perhaps some Great and Powerful Oz type who can be exposed with the simple lifting of a curtain.
But it really isn't such a killer claim after all, is it?
