[PsiCop;28018][quote=noeticcenter;27969]It is a question of AUTHORITY. These Sri Sri's have their RIGHT to beleive what they want. But, they have NO AUTHORITY to do that. It is their flimsy, sleazy fancies, probably psychedelics related since most of them are on sub-nutritional proetein deficient diets of psychedelic natural produce. Also their habitat of higher elevation with less oxygen (rarified) and more ozone content
adds to the delirium. All the same, they are by and large extremely honest, decent and sincere folks of learning especially in Sanskrit, and ardent seekers with ahimsa (non-violence) almost encoded into their genome.
Still as the Prophet Isaiah (Is. chapter 17 vs 9) around 800 BC spoke: " The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.." People can trust every human fancy, but not the AUTHORITY of the OT & NT Scriptures!!
PsiCop (?) wrote:
Actually, the Scriptures have no "AUTHORITY" as history. They are examplars of ancient belief, nothing more. They were certainly NOT written by credentialed historians and therefore CANNOT rationally be taken as "history" as we know it.
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Noetic Response:
You either did not care to read my post or misread it. You are only repeating what I wrote:" The Bible is not a History book", but whenever it refers to historic events they have been found accurate and reliable. Most of modern archeology have been benefited by Biblical references.
Have you ever, even once, read the Bible as you read any other IMPORTANT book from page to page, cover to page? If not, you either put up with its claims or shut up. It looks like you have not read much of any history either.
The claims of the Book are completely different from any notion you can ever have or construct in your mind!! Read my previous post for what its central theme is. It is a PERSON not a PRINCIPLE or PHILOSOPHY or SCIENCE. Judge the BOOK by that PERSON and His unique 'out-of-the-world' Mission.
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