Thursday, February 17, 2011

Could prophecy exist? Sure. Pink Unicorns Too.

Thanbo writes:

I could try to explain further, but it's clear from your last sentence that you've accepted the faith position that "prophecy cannot exist". Without prophecy, there will be no good evidence for the Divinity of the Torah. Without prophecy, you have no divine revelations, to individuals or groups. Without prophets, you don't have a Moses to be the greatest one. Without a greatest prophet, you have no way to receive God's word in the sense He meant it. Therefore, without prophecy, there's no Divine Torah, and no way it could be divine.

Hmm, so what was my last sentence? It was this:

The reason why it's irrational to believe that God wrote the Torah is NOT because there's evidence that multiple people wrote it. But rather it's because there's no good evidence that God wrote it.

So, I didn't say anything like 'prophecy can't exist'. What I actually said was, there's no good evidence that God wrote the Torah. Or alternatively, there's no good evidence that prophecy exists. This is poshut. So why can't an otherwise intelligent person like Thanbo see that?

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