ughaibu

Euclid? Archimedes?

Chili

He is all of that and then some. In fact, he provides the major premiss of every inquiry that we may have, and if your conclusion here is that you need an intake gasket he will have also been the inspiration for the maker of that gasket.

What I like best here is that the Gutenberg press accelerated the rise of our
modal logic as if putting yeast in dough to make it rise a little faster and consequently must be punched down sooner so we can all have a taste of it (if only in the wake of its aftermath as we see here now at our favorite venting place).
Here is what Parmenides had to say on this:

"For just as each man is fitted with much roaming limbs,
So is the insight which comes to man. Indeed,
this IT is that thinks, this nature (emergent) through the limbs of man,
Both in all and in each, for what fills the limbs is what gets thought."

Or Empedocles reported:

"For all according to what is present does mindfulness grow in men (and)
As they change into another nature so too . . .
does thinking come to them in other ways."

spin

Be reasonable.

Try people who are representative of their era. Read about the Syrian Goddess or Plutarch's world views. Read about the mystery cults. Dionysius. Mithras. Look at the auguries Suetonius mentions. Read about the popularity of Alexander who advocated worshiping a snake god, recorded by Lucian of Samosata. Look at the works of the gnostics. Make a fair comparison.


spin

Exciter

or four...

It's a record of God's interaction with the people in it.

Inspiration, for one.


Like a jigsaw puzzle. Some people spend hours putting them together, go figure.

Not always clear, but that's part of the learning process, and in many cases the curve.

How so? People are told that as it is, but don't know.

The only forest known to be destroyed because of any book was the Sahara Forest.

Al Gore ain't God.

aa5874

In Exodus, there is a report God could print on stone, when in the company of Moses.

Exodus 31.18, " And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God."

WishboneDawn

Oh come on! That's so obviously engraving and NOT printing.

Joan of Bark

I'm asking the question of believers, Spin. Obviously we skeptics see it as a historical / cultural / mythological anthology. Believers see it as the word of God. From that perspective, it seems to be superfluous.

Joan of Bark

No, but if God cared about the environment, he would not have wanted His Word to destroy so many trees. In His omnipotence, he would have made sure that we all knew the way to get answers about anything is through prayer.

Joan of Bark

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He could have fed this information directly to our brains.

So those who believe that an all-loving God created the universe, and all the marvels in it, need a book for inspiration?

And the illiterate are out of luck.

A learning process that has resulted in countless conflicts because no two groups of believers can agree on what it says. Does God like conflict?

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If they prayed, they would find out. And again, God could have fed this information directly into our minds.

Okay, so I used some hyperbole. Thousands of trees have been cut down and huge quantities of energy has been consumed to spread the Word of the Omnipotent God.

Huh???

aa5874

You saw the finished product? Come on, God can turn stone to paper and his finger to PC printer, you know that!