Originally posted by sonhouse
Not 'spiritual exterminator' so much as 'bible god exterminator'. I am not even atheist but I consider the bible god and all three Abrahamic religions 100% man made. Men can and do come up with wise sayings on a daily basis and have for the past 10,000 years or more and they did that with the bible, the Torah, the Quran, the Vedas, all of them written totally by men.
Humans are plenty smart enough to come up with literally millions of pithy sayings, no need for intervention from a deity.
The book of
Proverbs contains wise sayings. The whole Bible is not just the book of the sayings of the wise in
Proverbs.
You have much history there. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob speaks of a God in the flow of history. It is naive to pretent all we have in the Bible is a collection of wise sayings.
We have a record of this God's interaction with generations and generations of people. In fact 1600 years of time are covered not including time in prophecies yet to be fulfilled.
You artificially characterize the Bible as merely "wise sayings."
I'll ignore the red herring stuff about pyramids and ancient knowledge.
Its not terribly relevant here.
A real god can speak to every person on Earth in his or her own language all at once, no intermediaries needed. That is the big failure of these Taco Bell religions.
It is Islam that usually insists that Arabic is the ONLY language in which Allah wants to speak to men.
The Bible is in three languages - Hebrew, Chaldean, Greek.
It has been translated into thousands of languages.
You say you're not an atheist. From where do you get your concept of Theos ?
Seems you Burger King - Tacos Bell religions apply more to your fly-by-night concept of Theos devoid of any biblical influence than the thousands of years the Bible has impacted the beliefs of people.
Educate yourself just a little bit. The Quran was written by one man over the course of about 30 years. By the way Muhammed himself doubted at first that the messages he was getting were really from God and not from evil spirits. His wife and another relative had to encourage him to keep taking down the messages as from Allah.
The Bible has 40 different authors over a vaster period of centuries.
Rather than one occupation they represented many.
Moses - a political leader trained in Egypt
Joshua - a military general
The Samuels - a priest
Psalms - largly a shepherd boy become a king
Proverbs - largly a wise king and other intellectuals
Daniel - a Hebrew statesman trained to serve Babylon
Nehemiah - a governor
Ezra - another priest
Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah - prophets of God
Amos - a tree farmer called to be a prophet.
Matthew - a tax collector
Mark - an assistant to a preacher
Luke, Acts - a physician with a penchant for journalism and history
John - a fishermen
Diversity suggests God's concern for universality.
Duration of time suggests God testifying to His
faithfulness and eternality.
Longevity of time testifying to His word enduring the test of time an ever changing surrounding world.