(December 10, 2015 at 11:36 am)SteveII Wrote: No the authors of the 66 books of the Bible did not base their belief in God on the cosmological argument. They based it on other things. You'll have to look into each one to see what exactly. The cosmological (and other) arguments give Christians a measure of confidence and logical defense from people who say stupid things like "compilation of stories passed down from ignorants". If arguments and evidence suggest there probably is a God, the next step is to examine if that God has interacted in some other way with man.
The people that wrote the Bible were ignorant. Do you honestly think that the creation myth in Genesis would be written the same if the authors had our knowledge? How does a simple statement of fact suddenly become a stupid thing? My guess it's because the truth makes much of what the Bible claims to be fact demonstrably false which in turn makes believers uncomfortable and their argument untenable.
What was stupid was your earlier invocation of magic alligators. The reason it was stupid is because I can easily prove the existence of alligators. You have absolutely no evidence for any god. Magic be damned.
