all things are possible with God
Then it's about time he got off his fat lazy arse and did something useful!
I'll say! Humans are constantly calling him, but he doesn't pick up. It must be a long Sabbath Holiday weekend in Heaven (which never made sense to me, anyway, since God rested after creating mankind on the 7th day, but if 1,000 yrs is a day to Jehovah, then where did that 1,000 yr day go? It's not recorded in the Bible, or did God get a babysitter to keep an eye on Adam and Eve?)
But sure, God's omnipotence is the "get out of jail free" card that is used whenever they're stuck. And it's also WHY it's better to focus of what the account actually shows God doing (eg flip-flop regret, not offering any survivors on board the Ark, etc) since it means he COULD'VE done something different than killing all humans to cover up His earlier boo-boo (ooops: the account shows God forgot to tell mankind that murder and blood-shed was a sin until AFTER the Flood).
Comatose mentioned the inexplicable shifts between supernatural and natural events, when he said this:
Blending miracles with plausible explanations just does not mix.
Unfortunately, those mix all too easily, since that actually INCREASES the credibility of the story in the minds of believers since it's tha apparent ease with which they are slipped into the account. For example, in Adam and Eve, modern people will read about God shaping Adam out of dust as some poetic or metaphorical allusion, when NO, that was not actually even considered as odd to ancient people, but a perfectly NATURAL claim to make in the ancient World. But by the time Eve encounters a talking snake, you'd THINK that it would be clear to even modern readers that it's not LITERAL (eg Aesop's fables had talking animals, too, and even then, Greeks UNDERSTOOD that these were parables, not talking animals), but no; instead they make elaborate conspiracies (eg Satan possessed the serpent) to make it blend. The story presents it so nonchalantly, and the characters in the story don't question it, so the reader goes along with it.
That's similar to the point that Reza Aslan made in the video I posted a link to earlier in another thread about how writers of the Gospels NEVER INTENDED their writings to be taken as historical records of events, since that's a modern concept; instead, they had a MESSAGE they wanted to convey, as if Jesus himself were the living embodiment of a parable. Ancients just didn't think of the World the same as most modern people do.
Oh, on the 'releasing the bird' bit in the Noah account, a modern Christian would probably excuse that as God wanting Noah to stand on his own two feet, much in the same way they excuse the lack of communication with God today by claiming He doesn't want to make it TOO easy for people to believe in Him, since He values faith (which is contradicted by the example of Exodus, with all the miracles He demonstrated in the Wilderness, eg with the parting of the Red Sea). But in spite of such claims of miracles being witnessed in the Wilderness, the Exodus account states a good many Hebrews began to worship golden calves the first chance they got! Of course, that only allows JWs for not recognizing Jesus as their messiah (although he didn't fit the prophetic criteria in if only one HUGE way, as Aslan points out in the video) to think they're smarter than the silly Hebrews depicted in the account, pointing to how Jews lost the right to be YHWH's Chosen People as punishment.
Of course, that all plays right into the classic 'appeal to personal narcissism', which plays out all around the World when JWs talk on the platform to a roomful of JWs telling them they're the bright ones who've got it figgured (sic) out, as if in a self-congratulatory circle jerk.
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