(July 12, 2015 at 3:46 am)robvalue Wrote: I am so sick of false equivocations. I can't believe that anyone thinks we are going to be fooled by such obvious nonsense.The God character of the Bible was simply the emperor of the dominant empire in the area at the given time. There was no invisible sky creature running around talking to people unless they were suffering from heat stroke and having delusions.
As I was saying, god is like a dead cactus. Why would you worship a dead cactus? It has no power, and it's dead. And it's a cactus.
A typical example of the emperor as God is in Daniel chapter 6 when Darius the Persian issued a command that people had to pray to him for thirty days.