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Subject: If we go out

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Damoclese

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Date Posted: 07/29/02 12:57pm
In reply to: Biff 's message, "Will you wear it out, or just around the house?" on 07/28/02 3:41pm

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>For the point I was making, the analogy served its
>purpose. Obviously, I was not using it to attempt to
>prove that the Christian God is the one true God, but
>simply to show how different societies may have known
>him, even if it's by a different reference than we do.

It wasn't quite so "obvious" to me because it wasn't prefeced by the information you've given now. If your analogy was only to offer an example of how people might have gotten to know the Christian God by different names, that's fine. My original point that you seemed to try to discount with your analogy still stands, and that is that while your analogy may work for the Christian God, it would work equally well for Allah or any other deity. If you don't agree with this, please explain to me why it is that it would not work equally well with Allah.

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>Okay, so you seem to be completely discounting the
>story of Abraham as related in Genesis. Do you have
>another source than offers a more credible explanation
>for the beginning of the Hebrew people? Perhaps one
>which was written closer in time to the events
>themselves?

I don't completely discount the story of Abraham. I think there may have been a guy called Abraham, and maybe he thought he heard something like some God speaking to him. What I discount is that it necessarily was the Christian God. Maybe it was no God at all, maybe it was Satan for all I know. That's the beauty of historical fiction, you can make up whatever you like as long as the people and scenes are set up in some symbolance of what actually happened. (remember Titanic?)

Just for the record however, I don't think the Chrisitan record of the Jewish people is very accurate. I would expect more accuracy in a Jewish book like the Torah, but even that may not be the case.

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