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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (12368)	5/17/2002 11:48:40 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Well another thing as well Mitch , to be frankly honest , is that Christianity links itself into the Talmud/Torah Old Testement to achieve the sense of a longer term continuity which most Biblical Scholarship is forever using to link the older prophesies to the revelation and the coming of the prophet . Tracing the lineage and geneology so meticulously back to Abraham , and before that to Noah and the flood , and before that to Cain and Abel etc etc . The whole thing is rather silly and contrived , and the "continuity " is completely lost in credibility , when one considers the time of man on this planet , even before the fictional Moses certainly goes back more than 28 generations. How long is it that we know that Neanderthal Man existed ? For 300,000 to 30,000 yrs? It is almost common knowledge today , in spite of those who's tendentious "scholarship" ignores the real truth of the evolution of the many forms of relgious beliefs that were practiced all around the tribes of the MiddleEast , that Moses' passages of the Septugeunt were in all probability not composed by any such mythological character at all. And written much , much later by many different authors . It seems all to clear to the Christian believer , but the truth of the Old Testament and the pure lineage back thru the tribal religion of Israel , was no such solidified precursor to later events as they would ever dream . There was a panoply of beliefs , coming from the Grecian and Persian to Egyptian/Babylonian influences....other Semetic tribes just a few valleys away , had differing belief systems . And if Moses didn't really exist , then what is one to make of the rest of it ? He was a very central character of the bringer of the law , and the whole idea of God's covenenant with that particular trible only , goes flying out the window very fast. Something is amiss in Israel , especially any accurate reading of it's history which has been cloaded and cloaked by much alteration thru time , even back then it was chaos mostly. The Bible is literature , not God's dogma. That is what they cannot see.