WOTMQ: Guided By The Spirit
Apologists will argue that while the various authors of the various books of the Bible lived in times of ignorance, superstition, and myth, those authors were able to transcend all of that by being guided by the Holy Spirit. So, how does that hold up upon inspection?
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Y'mean… y'mean… the sun doesn't revolve around the earth? 😧
The really amazing thing is that the authors of those books believed that what they wrote showed their god in a good light! Genocides, wars, executions, rapes, etc. . . . all good!
Isn’t it obvious that the ancient Semitic tribes of the Middle East knew nothing of the cosmos? The fact that the Ex Nihilo creator thought nothing of revealing any natural fact unknown to the ancients is damning. If Moses, for example, wrote Genesis Chapter 1 from information told to him by God because there was no human to witness it, wouldn’t you think that there’d be some accurate science revealed? Worse, God wrote in the biblical text gibberish about a “firmament in the midst of the waters” because they literally believed there were waters in the sky and the “firmament” anchored the sun, moon, and stars to the waters above and kept the water above us from falling. Not only were the Israelites not more scientifically advanced than their contemporaries, Genesis cosmology spouts sheer nonsense. It would have been better for the bible to say nothing about the creation than to describe the natural world in such ignorant terms. Furthermore, what if, for example, Moses or Jesus knew anything about galaxies, or protons, or viruses, or electricity? How much more impressive would Moses proclaiming E=mc2 be than tapping a rock and getting water? Possession of advanced scientific knowledge would have strongly suggested that the Israelites had divine information. Theists love to strut about asserting the complexity of life is only explainable by a designer god. They also conveniently fail to state that, after 4,000 years of “special revelation”, we know nothing of the natural world through anyone’s god. Isn’t it strange that the know-it-all creator god did not explain any science to the ancient Israelites, or to us today? The failure of the biblical writers to know anything of the natural world in advance of secular science is an epic fail of a would-be slam-dunk proof of God’s existence, philosophy not required. I’m talking about the Israelites knowing any fact of biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, or mathematics before modern science figured it for themselves. This odd situation is practically an anti-proof of God’s existence.
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My favorite story from the bible was the time Jesus got a good deal on Bud Light from Walmart. lol.
Transcendent Gaslighting!