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In reply to the discussion: What if God was a singularity? [View all]EvilAL
(1,437 posts)134. I could easily explain the solar system to them.
Maybe that will help you understand the point.
God felt he had to lie about creating the natural world and universe to them because... They are too dumb to understand.
God was unable, again, GOD, was unable to explain what I could have easily explained to them with a few illustrations and observations.
God was like.. OK, I'm gonna tell you this once..
The sun is a star and the earth and other planets revolve around the sun. The tiny lights in the sky are also suns like ours but very far away and different sizes.
Then the guy writing the stuff down asked a couple too many questions and God said "Well, just write whatever you want."
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Are you suggesting the authors of Genesis didn't actually believe in a six-day creation?
Act_of_Reparation
Nov 2017
#91
Perhaps it is because you seem to believe opinions are justified by virtue of their own existence.
Act_of_Reparation
Nov 2017
#131
No. The point is that the biblical cosmology was accepted as accurate for about 1400
Voltaire2
Nov 2017
#139
Please go read what (Eastern) Orthodox Christianity founded in 33 A.D. (or B.C.E.
sprinkleeninow
Nov 2017
#143
If you were talking to Bronze Age human, after arriving in your time machine,
guillaumeb
Nov 2017
#124
That's not half bad. (Not a wise acreage remark from me.) end of message
sprinkleeninow
Nov 2017
#106
I've never seen or talked to a water buffalo. Nevertheless, I believe they exist.
TomSlick
Nov 2017
#39