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#31
RE: Belief
January 15, 2010 at 6:29 pm
(January 15, 2010 at 5:46 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: So does this prove that the christian god believes in these deities or just that he believes that these people had false beliefs?

It proves he understood people have different understanding of what a god is.

(January 15, 2010 at 5:46 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote:
fr0d0 Wrote:People make their own gods all the time. Materialism is our god of choice, for example.
You may speak for yourself but not for me. I feel no urge whatsoever to ascribe supernatural powers to natural things.

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RE: Belief
January 15, 2010 at 6:34 pm
(January 15, 2010 at 6:29 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:
(January 15, 2010 at 5:46 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: So does this prove that the christian god believes in these deities or just that he believes that these people had false beliefs?
It proves he understood people have different understanding of what a god is.
It proves the authors of the bible had contact with other tribes who were making up gods also.

fr0d0 Wrote:
(January 15, 2010 at 5:46 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote:
fr0d0 Wrote:People make their own gods all the time. Materialism is our god of choice, for example.
You may speak for yourself but not for me. I feel no urge whatsoever to ascribe supernatural powers to natural things.

You think shopping is supernatural!? Confusedhock:
Please reread to find the answer you're looking for.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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#33
RE: Belief
January 15, 2010 at 7:07 pm (This post was last modified: January 15, 2010 at 7:08 pm by fr0d0.)
(January 15, 2010 at 6:34 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote:
(January 15, 2010 at 6:29 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: It proves he understood people have different understanding of what a god is.
It proves the authors of the bible had contact with other tribes who were making up gods also.

So the bible correlates with actual phenomenon.

(January 15, 2010 at 6:34 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote:
fr0d0 Wrote:
(January 15, 2010 at 5:46 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote:
fr0d0 Wrote:People make their own gods all the time. Materialism is our god of choice, for example.
You may speak for yourself but not for me. I feel no urge whatsoever to ascribe supernatural powers to natural things.

You think shopping is supernatural!? Confusedhock:
Please reread to find the answer you're looking for.

Precicely. Your allusion to supernatural attributes is spurious.
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#34
RE: Belief
January 15, 2010 at 7:34 pm
(January 15, 2010 at 7:07 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:
(January 15, 2010 at 6:34 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote:
(January 15, 2010 at 6:29 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: It proves he understood people have different understanding of what a god is.
It proves the authors of the bible had contact with other tribes who were making up gods also.

So the bible correlates with actual phenomenon.
Yes, like Maya signs leave some imprint of Maya society. But that does not mean the Mayan gods exists now does it?



Read again.
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#35
RE: Belief
January 15, 2010 at 8:22 pm
(January 15, 2010 at 7:34 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote:
(January 15, 2010 at 7:07 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:
(January 15, 2010 at 6:34 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote:
(January 15, 2010 at 6:29 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: It proves he understood people have different understanding of what a god is.
It proves the authors of the bible had contact with other tribes who were making up gods also.

So the bible correlates with actual phenomenon.
Yes, like Maya signs leave some imprint of Maya society. But that does not mean the Mayan gods exists now does it?

*sighs*

(January 15, 2010 at 7:34 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: Read again.

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#36
RE: Belief
January 16, 2010 at 8:18 am
The Canaanites did more than make contact with other gods. They did what Catholics did and incorporated them into their religion. The Catholics made saints out of them while the Canaanites made gods into patriarchs. Adam, Eve, Moses, Abraham, were all based on other gods.
"On Earth as it is in Heaven, the Cosmic Roots of the Bible" available on the Amazon.
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