God created the heavens and the earth

[MarcusA]

And all sorts of dune buggies.

[No one]

It was fear that created all the gods.

[Old Seer]

Heaven: a place in one's psyche containing what one values and esteems called stars. A new car, mother, father, wife, money, pets, motorcycle, friends. movie "stars", a rock star, body.
IE. As a car slowly turns into a rust bucket it looses it's brightness-- time for a brighter star.

[MarcusA]

Heaven doesn't allow pets. It only allows human beings to enter because animals don't have souls. Therefore, you shouldn't blame me - it's theology that is to blame.

[Asmodean]

It would be far more impressive if God created the heavens, from which then arose the Sun, from the accretion disk or dust cloud or whatever was there of which arose the Earth. Just sayin'. There must be some bronze age way of putting them thoughts into scripture.

[Old Seer]

It would be far more impressive if God created the heavens, from which then arose the Sun, from the accretion disk or dust cloud or whatever was there of which arose the Earth. Just sayin'. There must be some bronze age way of putting them thoughts into scripture.

There now exists two distinctly opposing interpretations of biblical creation, Material and the other psychological under which material things are metaphors for spiritual things. It's a choice now of which one wants to use. The later will require some learning.   

[Asmodean]

All I'm saying is that it would have been far easier to make the book fit reality if the book presented an even halfway adequate model of it.

In that book, "spirits" would have been something people use to get drunk.

[No one]

The god of the bible is an inefficient, bumbling, inept bozo.

[Asmodean]

The god of the bible is an inefficient, bumbling, inept bozo.

Methinks it's all that spirituality, if you know what I mean.

[MarcusA]

The god of the bible is an inefficient, bumbling, inept bozo.

Methinks it's all that spirituality, if you know what I mean.

Then, God is detached from the real world for a reason.