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To: Alamo-Girl
By anthropomorphizing God, they deny God who IS and create a smaller "god" of their own imagining, one they can comprehend.

I disagree.

I would say that there are far more people like myself who wonder why the God of the Bible (especially the Old Testament) seems to be archaically unsophisticated. God's endless blathering about how to grow your crops, treat your slaves, and run your small regional city states makes him seem like a local wise man squatting in an incense-filled lambskin tent rather than the incredible, timeless, all knowing ruler of the universe.

If God is so omnipotent and involved in the goings on of heaven and Earth, why does he limit his scripture's geographic reach to middle eastern backwoods? Surely there were righteous men and human upheavals happening elsewhere in the world that could have used his guidance.

His explanation of the creation time, space, and the Earth reads more like a big budget version of the story we tell children to explain where babies come from; instead of the stork delivering the baby to awaiting parents, we have God fashioning the universe in a few days like he's putting together a train set.

Why does God's words seem so caught up in the dated rituals and social norms of slavery and animal sacrifice that even the laziest and amoral of modern men have long abandoned?

The New Testament is somewhat of an improvement to the Pentateuch and later books of the Old, but it still doesn't do much to improve the ostensible impression that the God of the Bible is very much a being invented by Bronze age story tellers.

537 posted on 07/02/2007 12:21:25 PM PDT by GunRunner (Come on Fred, how long are you going to wait?)
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To: GunRunner
quod erat demonstrandum
542 posted on 07/02/2007 12:33:39 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: GunRunner; MHGinTN
Interesting that you ask such questions (not the questions, just that you ask them).

Lemme take a short at them.

Lets say the universe has a creator bigger than the universe, kinda like the universe is part of some greater whole. Maybe the creator of this universe had a design in mind for himself to get into the creation in a limited way (less than the whole) and ran the functions to arrive at a desired model he had in mind at the start (if being god means willing something makes it have to happen, this design model would after a fashion be with the designer when the functional expressions of the creation began).
To make it interesting, the creator chooses one man who happens to believe god when god speaks to him (Abram), and tells this man the model the creator designed from the start will be 'born eventually in the believing man's lineage'. Now, if this creator had in mind to evolve a class of created beings well beyond the four-spacetime coordinate system we sense presently, why not use a sensing mechanism like faith to raise the four-spacetime beings to the next level of reality? And why would such a process need to be instituted world-wide all at once if the time factor of four-spacetime isn't the essential next variable of time which will be functional in the next level of evolved complexity?

565 posted on 07/02/2007 1:04:33 PM PDT by papagall (Attaboys are cheap; one dagnabit cancels out dozens of them.)
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