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Debate over the Bible's facticity indubitably misses the crucial question: "Is it art?"
Joedirtrules disagrees:
That’s simply not true. Examining the text (in conjunction with archeological finds) to research the origins of the Bible, and thus, subsequently asses the authenticity of it’s purported accounts, had lead to discovering the contrasting rhetoric employed by the authors–amalgamated into the old testament. They are: J (or Yahwist), E (calling God “Elohim”), P (priestly), and D (deuteronomy). J, is characterized by the vast detail and emotion, and the fact that God speaks directly to people. While, E, writes of mediation between God’s words and the intended recipient. Point being, it was the very admission of the Bible’s artistic aspects that was asserted in discussions of its facticity.
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Can you guess the subject of this sentence? Forever wonderful, unexplainahle, it is yet intensely, most indubitably real. — Littell's Living Age, 1853 Here's the answer in context (in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Life is, indeed, the 'perennial standing miracle of the universe.' ... This fact if being alive is not to be denied or questioned; if all else were doubtful, this is certain—here we are! conscious living beings, with an actual destiny in the present and in the future, the issues and the mystery whereof our deepest intuitions cannot fathom.
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"Consciousness manifests itself indubitably in man and therefore, glimpsed in this one flash of light, it reveals itself as having a cosmic extension and consequently as being aureoled by limitless prolongations in space and time."* — Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom, The Ascension Factor (1988)
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