Monday, January 16, 2012

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Plato's Man in the Cave Series continues: The Mysteries that Still Reside in Plato's Heaven Part 3
                                                       (More Downstairs)
                                      by Richard DePersio with Citizen Journalist
 
 
Ideas spread slowly in the Ancient World: Traders would exchange ideas; ideas were
exchanged after the conquest of one group of another.
      God of fresh water warns one man of the plans of other gods to flood the world;
only that man is saved. Sound familiar? This is part of ancient Mesopotamian mythology
and was written about a thousand years prior to Biblical story. There are a number of
ancient flood stories which would indicate that there had been a major flood in the
Persian Gulf area.
      No concept of the punishment should fit the crime: Getting water from rock!?!: Moses
wanders in the desert for 40 years and God finally says - look at the horizon, there lies
the Promised Land that you have waited for all these years - - but you're not going for the
other day I spied you extracting water from a rock using a procedure other than the one
I had taught you! How dare Moses exercise the Free Will for which God had blessed
him!
      Over the past couple of decades, we are discovering evidence of the existence of
people and events in the Bible for which evidence had not existed previously, for example,
meteorological, biological and geological explanations for the 10 plagues of Egypt or the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by a meteor assuming that there had been 10 plaques
and that there was a S & G. There exist alternative explanations. There is even growing
evidence that there had indeed been the plagues and that S & G existed.
     It is easy to imagine early homo sapiens existing in a frightening world: rain; snow;
hurricanes; lightning and thunder; volcanoes; earthquakes; forest fires; etc. And, thinking
that gods were responsible and that prayer was wise. With time came religion: group
prayer might be more effective in getting the god of thunder not to produce thunder.
     Let's assume that all the people and events of the Bible are true. We can now posit
alternate explanations of a non-supernatural nature for them. Does this mean that their
is no God? To the contrary! God is likely to exist - just not the God of the Bible.
     The famous 18th Century philosopher Kant claimed that reason could not prove the
existence of God but that it was reasonable to believe based on faith. We disagree! It
is reasonable to think that God is possible, even probable, predicated on reason. We
shall present our arguments.
                                     To Be Continued...

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