Why are other civilizations ignored in the Bible?

[pocaracas]

I wouldn't say it's ridiculous.
I'd say it says a lot about the general level of education of the people about their own inner brain operation and on how easily it can be fooled... and, as all such fooling... it (the brain) is seldom aware that it is being fooled and accepts the event/operation as reliable.

It is my opinion that humanity's early extraordinary experiences fall under such brain trickery and subsequent misunderstanding of these experiences.
As more and more people accept such misunderstanding, it becomes normal and people gather around that idea.
Some people dress it up as a very appealing idea and a religion is born.

From this arises the word many of us usually use to describe believers: delusional.

If there is one thing I am sure of in this life it is this: I know I have been changed.

I know who I was.

I know who I am now.

And I know it is not by any trick of my mind that I am who I am today.

I was once a slave to sin.

Now Christ is my Lord.

yeah... right...
See what I mean? delusional.
You can't bring yourself to realize that your "change" was all in your mind, through the trick of the impression of some foreign agent which, in this case, you have attributed to christ, the deity most represented in your environment/habitat, no doubt.

I find it fascinating that you (and many others like you) can see the process spelled out (even if roughly like I did) in front of you and not realize that you may indeed be the victim of that process.
You flat out deny it by claiming that you "know" that it is not a possibility.

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I'd most likely seriously doubt that the person was dead to begin with...

For the sake of argument, the man has been dead for three days. His body has begun decomposing and smells horribly (Lazarus).

I come to him and cry aloud to arise in Jesus' name.

The man arises, alive and well.

What would you do then?

hmmm Imagine the possibilities...
What would I do?
Well duh! I'd ask you to do it again!
Bring Einstein back!
Bring Feynman back!
Bring Sagan back!
Bring my grandfather back.
Bring Mozart back!

Bring Saddam Hussein back, so we could kill him over and over again!

And then, we'd gather under lab conditions with several corpses and study how you're doing it!