Post by The Ninevite on Jul 5, 2024 21:43:48 GMT -8
On the face of it, if you have the misfortune of meeting either a strange fortune teller in the back room of a new science bookstore or one of the less spiritual street preachers who can crop up in odd places, the primary fallacy you will face in the overture of either interlocutor is a proposition that "science and religion are at odds, intertwined, or difficult to compare rationally". As a matter of fact, both science and the Bible are both rational, each in its own prevue or bailiwick. I almost said that they were both rational each in its own sphere, but I don't want to confuse any ignorantine friars. Science and faith are separate, they are as separate from each other in both daily and sabbath reality as the church and state are under political law. As a religious book, the Bible claims that God created the world, but at the same time, no one who sits down and reads through it mistakes it for a nature walk...well, except for a few child psychologists who need to make some extra money over your kid's summer vacations by narrating dramatic hikes through time travel at the local private school gymnasium.
One fact about the Bible is that of the many world scriptures claiming to be religious doctrines, first only the Bible claims creation from nothing by means of the deity's spoken word, and secondly, only the Bible tells the story of a worldwide flood. If you do meet someone who is trying to promote the Bible as a panacea for the country's educational ills, I need to inform you that the person is only a prognosticator who practices bibliomancy, and to some extent it's probably alright to just dismiss the person as being in the same category as tarot card readers and people who tell fortunes by examining tea leaves or the lines on the palms of people's hands. The real issue, the pea under the mattress so to speak for the abstract logician practicing philosophy is to first determine if it's really that the person is out to attack religion altogether out front, or if it's more that the person wants to manipulate science for monetary or political gain. A creationist who believes the Biblical record has to conclude that if a person attacks one, then he attacks the other, because as a Bible reader he accepts the axial statement that God originated the physical sphere.
The Bible is read by many, for many reasons, including social obligation, simple duty, and also by criminals who seek either to gain status by preaching new thought, also by secular professionals who believe that world knowledge useful to their livelihood is found inside, and even by satanists who have more drug money and leisure time than they have the good sense to get inside out of the rain. What the Bible is about, spiritually, is spiritual salvation in the next life, going to Heaven rather than Hell, and in a word, redemption. It is also a fact that Christian cultures produce better medical doctors and civil engineers than degenerate heathen societies and the tribes of illiterate witch doctors. Having said that, fake physics, mumbo-jumbo "medicine", and oddly abstruse "spiritual science" aren't the only avenues of attack that people who intend to attack the Bible use. There's also politics. Some people attack the Bible directly by means of political action and judicial activism, they're in fact separate from the myriads of paranormal "science" players, and sometimes even more dangerous.
In spite of the fact that all kinds of apostates and atheist overlap and mix and mingle with every kind of idolator on the planet, I am going to make every diligent effort to specify and categorize, just as a scientist would do for example in atomic chemistry. (Think of a harder science than atomic chemistry.
). My reason for this is twofold, first of all, we'll find in the Torah that there are two separate books of Mosaic law, Leviticus for the priests and specific to Sabbath, and Deuteronomy for the state and specific to the six days of labor. It is a Jeffersonian predicate fact that in the first amendment, church and state are absolutely separate, exactly as Sabbath and work week are absolutely separate, with no exceptions or overlap. So, in working from the Bible itself, our first parallel is between the Levitical Sabbath and priestly law code, and the Duteronamaniacal work week and Stately code of laws.
The first five books of the Bible comprise two histories measured in years, and two codes of law, as well as one order of battle. The events in Numbers occur during the time of the Exodus, and when reading the Book of Numbers, bear in mind that the interval described is an integrated meter found within the Exodus story. When you study physical calculus and find the arc lengths of the increments that the axis of the Earth moved during the flood, you are seeking to compute the infinitesimals. An infinitesimal is a rational part of a whole movement, and its definitive characteristic is that it is one of an even number of equal intervals found by calculation. The smallest infinitesimal is one second. All infinitesimals are time bunded integrals.
Understanding the Bible as a work of history requires calculus. To start us off, let's look at the obvious fact that at the outset of the New Testament, we are given four separate but simultaneous accounts of the life of Jesus Christ. Now these manuscripts are published in order, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but are they in linear chronological order, or are they arranged sequentially by the publisher in this order for some other reason? Clearly, the answer is that they are arranged in their sequence for some other reason. The four evangelists were contemporaries of each other and Christ, as well as of the other eight disciples. Only a pure fool would read the four gospel accounts and imagine that there were four Christs, or that Christ incarnated four different times, and that all of the disciples, rabbis, scribes, Romans, crowd members, and local government officials referred to in the gospels besides Jesus were all present for four sets of exactly repeated events of the Advent occurring in sequence! Likewise, not all of the books of the Bible besides the four Gospels are arranged imperfectly linear oder according to the passage of time. Although Christians accept the narrative statement "God created the Heavens and the Earth." at face value, the Bible per se is neither a science book, nor intended as a world history. The Bible is a book of religious scholarship.
There is more than one gap in terms of time passing when you read the letters of the Bible as a physical book, printed on paper and sewn into a binding. The writings of both the major and minor prophets are descriptions of visions, and all predictions made by God to the prophets, in the form of either warnings or promises, are recorded as divine predictions of the future, they are not history. A long temporal gap exists between the writing of the last Old Testament book and the events told in the opening four books of the New Testament.
One fact about the Bible is that of the many world scriptures claiming to be religious doctrines, first only the Bible claims creation from nothing by means of the deity's spoken word, and secondly, only the Bible tells the story of a worldwide flood. If you do meet someone who is trying to promote the Bible as a panacea for the country's educational ills, I need to inform you that the person is only a prognosticator who practices bibliomancy, and to some extent it's probably alright to just dismiss the person as being in the same category as tarot card readers and people who tell fortunes by examining tea leaves or the lines on the palms of people's hands. The real issue, the pea under the mattress so to speak for the abstract logician practicing philosophy is to first determine if it's really that the person is out to attack religion altogether out front, or if it's more that the person wants to manipulate science for monetary or political gain. A creationist who believes the Biblical record has to conclude that if a person attacks one, then he attacks the other, because as a Bible reader he accepts the axial statement that God originated the physical sphere.
The Bible is read by many, for many reasons, including social obligation, simple duty, and also by criminals who seek either to gain status by preaching new thought, also by secular professionals who believe that world knowledge useful to their livelihood is found inside, and even by satanists who have more drug money and leisure time than they have the good sense to get inside out of the rain. What the Bible is about, spiritually, is spiritual salvation in the next life, going to Heaven rather than Hell, and in a word, redemption. It is also a fact that Christian cultures produce better medical doctors and civil engineers than degenerate heathen societies and the tribes of illiterate witch doctors. Having said that, fake physics, mumbo-jumbo "medicine", and oddly abstruse "spiritual science" aren't the only avenues of attack that people who intend to attack the Bible use. There's also politics. Some people attack the Bible directly by means of political action and judicial activism, they're in fact separate from the myriads of paranormal "science" players, and sometimes even more dangerous.
In spite of the fact that all kinds of apostates and atheist overlap and mix and mingle with every kind of idolator on the planet, I am going to make every diligent effort to specify and categorize, just as a scientist would do for example in atomic chemistry. (Think of a harder science than atomic chemistry.
). My reason for this is twofold, first of all, we'll find in the Torah that there are two separate books of Mosaic law, Leviticus for the priests and specific to Sabbath, and Deuteronomy for the state and specific to the six days of labor. It is a Jeffersonian predicate fact that in the first amendment, church and state are absolutely separate, exactly as Sabbath and work week are absolutely separate, with no exceptions or overlap. So, in working from the Bible itself, our first parallel is between the Levitical Sabbath and priestly law code, and the Duteronamaniacal work week and Stately code of laws. The first five books of the Bible comprise two histories measured in years, and two codes of law, as well as one order of battle. The events in Numbers occur during the time of the Exodus, and when reading the Book of Numbers, bear in mind that the interval described is an integrated meter found within the Exodus story. When you study physical calculus and find the arc lengths of the increments that the axis of the Earth moved during the flood, you are seeking to compute the infinitesimals. An infinitesimal is a rational part of a whole movement, and its definitive characteristic is that it is one of an even number of equal intervals found by calculation. The smallest infinitesimal is one second. All infinitesimals are time bunded integrals.
Understanding the Bible as a work of history requires calculus. To start us off, let's look at the obvious fact that at the outset of the New Testament, we are given four separate but simultaneous accounts of the life of Jesus Christ. Now these manuscripts are published in order, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but are they in linear chronological order, or are they arranged sequentially by the publisher in this order for some other reason? Clearly, the answer is that they are arranged in their sequence for some other reason. The four evangelists were contemporaries of each other and Christ, as well as of the other eight disciples. Only a pure fool would read the four gospel accounts and imagine that there were four Christs, or that Christ incarnated four different times, and that all of the disciples, rabbis, scribes, Romans, crowd members, and local government officials referred to in the gospels besides Jesus were all present for four sets of exactly repeated events of the Advent occurring in sequence! Likewise, not all of the books of the Bible besides the four Gospels are arranged imperfectly linear oder according to the passage of time. Although Christians accept the narrative statement "God created the Heavens and the Earth." at face value, the Bible per se is neither a science book, nor intended as a world history. The Bible is a book of religious scholarship.
There is more than one gap in terms of time passing when you read the letters of the Bible as a physical book, printed on paper and sewn into a binding. The writings of both the major and minor prophets are descriptions of visions, and all predictions made by God to the prophets, in the form of either warnings or promises, are recorded as divine predictions of the future, they are not history. A long temporal gap exists between the writing of the last Old Testament book and the events told in the opening four books of the New Testament.