X-Ftn-To: Gromit 

Gromit  wrote:
>> [Hammond]
>>   You're upside down and inside out.  HISTORY has described
>> something they call "God"... it's DESCRIBED in the 1,024
>> pages of the Bible where the word "God" is used at least
>> 5,000 times.  This HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION is based entirely
>> on EYEWITNESS OBSERVATION and has DEFIED PROOF by any means for
>> over 3,500 years.
>
>So far so good.

No, it's not good. You see, "historical description" doesn't mean
anything. "God as described in the Bible" also doesn't mean anything,
because we have thousands of sects that disagree on what the Bible
actually says. The Bible is a big book, some things in it are
contradictory, and one thing needs to be interpreted in the light of
another. Also, one would need to know the hystorical context in order
to understand the meaning of what is said there. This is not a simple
task, and it is aggravated even further by the fact that the Jews,
unlike the Greeks, weren't thinking in definitions, but images. The
Bible therefore doesn't contain a clear definition of God, although
God is mentioned all the time in different contexts. 

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