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Originally posted by Primordial Egg:
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Originally posted by yzend1:
Do you think my Roman Catholic Bible was written by/via an advanced alien or future-time travelling Human or is it Human Lies or is it the Word of God?
The mind Boggles
Will it be St peter at the marble gates or some alien or advanced human when I die?
The Mind Boggles
I suppose the question might be what good is faith in God which might only delay us on our road of using science to achieve immortality? Hence, It possible ain't some future human but a naughty rascal of an alien getting further and further ahead of us?
How do we inform the world to wake up?.......Before it's too late to catch up?
yzend1
Your original question was asking how we could identify a book as being written by God and I responded with a few criteria plus the notion that I couldn't see any way of distinguishing God from a sufficiently advanced intelligence (SAI), or even a time-travelling human.
You're now asking if I personally think the bible was written by an SAI?
Personally, no. I think it was written by men. Were they deliberately lying? I don't see why not, although its difficult to authenticate either way. I gather Barbara Thiering has done a lot of good work in this regard - the bible may well have been written as a fulfilment of earlier Jewish messianic prophecies and certainly seems to contain stories already in the dead sea scrolls. Its an interesting topic. Maybe someone who knows more than I do about the topic can wade in here.....
Then again, maybe it was written by a crafty alien? Seems to me to be a strange way to go about things if it was.
Why all the fuss about immortality though? It'd be a nightmare - imagine all the endless re-runs of the Sound of Music you'd have to sit through.
PE
You have an interesting point here. My 1st grade daughter is killing me with this do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do thing!
Any image of heaven I can come up with includes a good dose of quiet time.
-Shiloh
[This message has been edited by shilohproject, 01-15-2003]
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