Who is really in charge of inspiration?

Except by definition belief is not subject to testing and in particular, supernatural by definition is not testable. If for example they claim personal revelation you have no real recourse. You can of course simply say that you do not believe them, which is fine.If God chooses to speak to them but not to you, where is the problem?

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

They are satisfied that it is God. What more do you need?Understand, it is a question that I often ask people myself and have never gotten any answer that I consider reasonable.But we are talking about their beliefs. If they are satisfied then why do we care?Edited by jar, : hit ket

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

If they want to convert you to their belief, then yes, to get you to change your mind they need to present evidence that is sufficient to convince you.But if they are simply informing you of their belief then no evidence is needed.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

Gods.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

I'm putting this in a separate post because I think it's important and may even somehow relate to the topic itself.At the time the Genesis Garden of Eden fable was taking form, the idea of gods was quite different. The idea that there was one god, of any of the various forms of monotheism that developed around the middle bronze age, would not just have been alien, it simply would not have even come up.There would have been lots of gods, very human like yet living separately in a place few humans got to visit, capricious beings, more powerful than humans but not unlimited, quick to anger and quick to forgive or slow to anger but never forgiving, pretty much like the petty tyrants of the day.When the author of the story talks about "us" he is talking about the gods.It is only much, much later, around the time the Exodus myth was taking form that the concept of a god of a given people was beginning to evolve. But even there, it is NOT just one God, but rather a god of an area, or of a particular people.Reading the Bible as though ever reference to God describes the same character can only lead to misunderstanding and a cheapening of the stories.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

If you want to discuss this maybe it would be better over in the Birth of Monotheism

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!