Gods Fire

[rosie321]

I accidently stumbled across the link.

http://www.quantavolution.org/vol_09/gods_fire_01.htm

#109

From what I skimmed through it has some well though out ideas about the time of Moses from a scientific/ biblical perspective. While I wouldn't base my faith on this article it does introduce some interesting possibilities for consideration,

It takes a very scientific view on things but ties it in with events at the time.

I would not take it as gospel but as interesting reading. Many believe that God used scientific means to accomplish His purposes. This feeds those type of thinkers and provides interesting reading

[rosie321]

In actually reading it , and not skimming it , it does tend to take a pro science stance, ergo low religious acceptance. The ideas though still provide interesting reading

[sixpacktr]

I read about half of it, and then grew tired of reading how everything can be explained scientifically. Well, DUH! Of course they can. The article almost treats Moses like some con artist that used his magic stick to fool the Egyptians, etc.

To me it just reconfirms the need for faith. I think how hollow life must be for those that can't accept the there is a God in the universe that is overseeing things. When I recently read Exodus again, I too noticed that the progression of plagues were natural and logical (bad water, frogs, stench, carrion eaters, etc. ). So what?

I don't know, I get more and more frustrated with people that believe in the superiority of man and how smart we are and how destructive we are and that we don't need any help from God because a belief in God is the "effect of a frenzied mind". I love science, but hate what it has become. A reason to say that ancient man was simply a bunch of superstitious dolts that had to dream up a God in order to explain things away. How sad...

And how long can the ruler of the Universe put up with this stuff?

[Dr T]

When looking into the concept of truth, I found that the Empiricist theory of truth or "truth is what we can sense" has some difficulties. Some carry empiricism to an extreme as "science is the only way to know truth." Empiricism itself however, is not empirical, experimental, or experiential. I guess empiricism is not empirical enough.