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6/13/2025, 3:58:28 AM
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You're ascribing powers to God because of how others described him. The Bible never uses the word omnipotent, they use "almighty". And you seem to think almighty means the ability to create life and physics that are contradictory. And no, it's not blasphemous to believe many stories in the Old Testament are historically accurate, in fact, it's an extremely common Christian viewpoint.
Even Jesus, the Word of God, did not say, "They were right, they were all right!". He said they were divine and inspired men. Yes, I do believe some of the historical figures such as King David and Moses. Do I believe that David fought the last remaining giants that were made because angels had intercourse with humans? Not sure. There arealternative history theories about more advanced races being around the time of humans, those are interesting to think about with the Bible's timeline. Similar to how the Younger Dryers theory lines up with Noah, and how a wind setdown phenomenon can explain the parting of the Red Sea. It is possible that God led Moses to a body of water right when a wind setdown event happened, and scripture writers didn't fully understand the phenomenon and simply said it was God's will (which, in a cosmic sort of way, it was).
Also, humans absolutely function better with stories and parables than purely scientific terms. Again, it is not useful to us to tell us exactly how God works, especially if it's concepts we can never hope to understand. We've never lived in a world without space time. At best, we can hypothesize about it, but can YOU actually understand what it means to live in a realm where time does not exist? Even the smartest minds cannot understand how the universe was nothing and then something, and you want God to explain it to everyone on Earth at the same time?
Third, I assume you're talking about the Canaanites, and that's where it gets difficult to explain in purely secular terms. If I were to try my best, I would say it was a human culture that was so vile and corrupt, that they were beyond even God's redemption and had to be killed. It sounds cruel, but if you believe that we all return to God upon death (this is where I must get non-secular), then our souls are just going back to our creator. I don't believe in a fiery hell or a cloudy heaven. Maybe elements of re-incarnation might be real. Resurrections is real (if you're a believer). Does God allow sinned spirits to keep going through a physical journey until their spirit is healed? Maybe. Again, God is intentionally vague about what he's doing because if we just tells us everything and people decide they don't like it, then he'll forever lose those people.
I say all this with this belief said by Werner Heisenberg:
"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."
>Where in scripture does it say any of this
Romans 2:12-16.
You're ascribing powers to God because of how others described him. The Bible never uses the word omnipotent, they use "almighty". And you seem to think almighty means the ability to create life and physics that are contradictory. And no, it's not blasphemous to believe many stories in the Old Testament are historically accurate, in fact, it's an extremely common Christian viewpoint.
Even Jesus, the Word of God, did not say, "They were right, they were all right!". He said they were divine and inspired men. Yes, I do believe some of the historical figures such as King David and Moses. Do I believe that David fought the last remaining giants that were made because angels had intercourse with humans? Not sure. There arealternative history theories about more advanced races being around the time of humans, those are interesting to think about with the Bible's timeline. Similar to how the Younger Dryers theory lines up with Noah, and how a wind setdown phenomenon can explain the parting of the Red Sea. It is possible that God led Moses to a body of water right when a wind setdown event happened, and scripture writers didn't fully understand the phenomenon and simply said it was God's will (which, in a cosmic sort of way, it was).
Also, humans absolutely function better with stories and parables than purely scientific terms. Again, it is not useful to us to tell us exactly how God works, especially if it's concepts we can never hope to understand. We've never lived in a world without space time. At best, we can hypothesize about it, but can YOU actually understand what it means to live in a realm where time does not exist? Even the smartest minds cannot understand how the universe was nothing and then something, and you want God to explain it to everyone on Earth at the same time?
Third, I assume you're talking about the Canaanites, and that's where it gets difficult to explain in purely secular terms. If I were to try my best, I would say it was a human culture that was so vile and corrupt, that they were beyond even God's redemption and had to be killed. It sounds cruel, but if you believe that we all return to God upon death (this is where I must get non-secular), then our souls are just going back to our creator. I don't believe in a fiery hell or a cloudy heaven. Maybe elements of re-incarnation might be real. Resurrections is real (if you're a believer). Does God allow sinned spirits to keep going through a physical journey until their spirit is healed? Maybe. Again, God is intentionally vague about what he's doing because if we just tells us everything and people decide they don't like it, then he'll forever lose those people.
I say all this with this belief said by Werner Heisenberg:
"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."
>Where in scripture does it say any of this
Romans 2:12-16.
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