(February 22, 2015 at 5:32 pm)Nestor Wrote:(February 22, 2015 at 3:24 pm)Ignorant Wrote: that the revealed monotheistic god (Jewish, Christian, or of Islam) claims for himself, viz. eternal being.I think you mean rather it has the qualities that ancient myth-makers borrowed from ancient philosophers who thought about the same questions and came up with no better solutions.
Well, no, that isn't what I meant, but you are certainly free to put it that way if you like! But I'm confused. I thought the authors of the bible were iron-age, myth-making idiots who thought the sky was really a dome of water and that the earth was a giant disc and made up irrational stories about a god to make sense of the world? Now they are philosophizing myth-making idiots who borrow ideas from other cultures? What a promotion! =)
Seriously though, I only meant to suggest that god, as the monotheistic traditions present him as having revealed himself, has this trait.
