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"Even if there is some kind of ulterior consciousness underlying our existences (call it soul or spirit or whatever) ..." Kat
| I realize it's not your burden here Kat.
None the less, I'd be interested if any believer here would care to offer us a definition for the word "soul".
And while at it, some insight into the disjunction between the concept of soul, the millennia since creation, and the human population explosion.
For example, when the Old Testament was first written, what was Earth's total living human population? ~3 million?
How many are on Earth now? ~6 billion?
If god created a reservoir of souls at Creation, to supply the accelerating flood of newly (& currently) created human bodies proliferating on Earth, what have they been up to low these millennia?
Or has Genesis mislead us into thinking that after god's 7th day of rest, he got back to the factory work of producing souls, to meet ongoing (increasing) demand?
And if god is still producing souls, is the production "just in time" production (consistent with the Japanese industrial model)?
Or are souls being warehoused someplace? Quote: |
"These [Biblical] books existed in the oral tradition for hundreds of thousands of years. They finally wrote them down in Aramaic, later translated into Greek, & then Latin, and finally English, hundreds and hundreds of revisions: and this is supposed to be absolute direct word of God?" actor John Fugelsang
| I might quibble with Fugelsang's arithmetic here. But his underlying point seems worth considering. "Work is the curse of the drinking classes." Oscar Wilde |