(September 18, 2020 at 12:22 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Read the story. They expressed abandonment at Moses' absence, not a sense of insufficient evidence. To the contrary, they built the calf to make sense of that evidence and thus referred to it as the god who took them out of Egypt lol:
"Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him [...] Then they said, 'these are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt” (Exodus 32:1).
And how do you know that this story is anything other than a work of fiction?
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)