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People have been using spoken language for 50, maybe even 100, thousand years, believe it or not. And these days, with more people learning science and history,
few people would doubt archaelogical findings unless one imagines that these
scientists are under Satan's control, or that God made the earth appear older to weed out the fair weather faithful.

The bible puts creation at about 4000 years before Christ. That's interesting because evidence of written language goes back about 6000 years. That would make A&E the first writers, actually just Adam, it looks like women were not allowed to write books of the bible.

The need for record keeping and accounting propelled the advancement in written language. It looks like God waited for people to invent written language to inspire the books of the bible. To me, one of the most interesting unanswered God questions is about why God chose to inspire the bible when he did?

I think the first spoken word was "huh"; it just seems that in any language it is understood as an expression of amazement, or with a different inflection, the sound that a ? would make.

It looks to me like the more advanced writing became, the more people played around with it, and eventually scholars began to make stuff up to write.  The flood, the tower of Babel, and the two versions of the story of creation are prime examples. I just love the story of the tower of Babel; that term, by the way, is not used in the bible. The people were not just building a tower, they were building a city that was to be named Babel, hence the reference to the tower of Babel by readers.

So, God saw what the people were trying to do: build a tower to reach the heights of heaven. God said: if i don't do something, there's no stopping them, so he made up different languages, downloaded them into their brains, the people became dumbfounded, and just gave up and left. Yeah, but if i'm a Babelite, these are people i know and work with, if they, all the sudden, started speaking a strange language, i don't think i would give up that easy; i think i would try to learn their new language, teach them mine. This ploy that God used to stop the people from building didn't work anyway, didn't people go to the moon, and why didn't God stop that?

God the Almighty created the universe from nothing, what more do we need as proof of his power and perfection. God does not fail. This God of the bible does fail, and as evidenced by the story of Abraham and Lot, God plays cruel games with people. The God of the bible seems more human than anything else.

If a deity does exist, there is absolutely no connection to the God of the bible, a God that so obviously came from the imaginations of mankind.

Oh, and let's not forget the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, the message is clear: God hates gay people-- pure evidence that the writers of the bible were homophobes.

Far be it from me to imagine what a true deity would be like, but i will not believe in a human-like god. And i will not accept the claim that God-of-the-bible is given human qualities for me to relate to, i don't think i need to relate to a deity, or understand it, or even know it's name; a deity would be all powerful and divine, i would trust it, and if asked, worship it, no questions asked.