before dealing with errors and impossibilities
If any action or affirmation is to be considered as logical, it should be coherent with its reason and consequences.
If not, then the action or the affirmation is illogical, or the result of a logical error.
We cannot legitimize a logical error by saying:
"Yes it is an error, but it is so beautiful..." or
"Yes it is an error, but you know that logic and monotheism are incompatible", or
"Yes it is an error, but you have to remember that it is a revelation..."
Revelation does not mean "revealing" incoherence as a perfect divine coherence, or logical errors making perfect sense or being more than we can comprehend...
This approach invalidates and mocks comprehension.
Whatever is not meant for comprehension, has no place in a book that organizes a collective of men (a very large collective), brings laws, creates patterns of behavior, decides what is good and what is bad, presents a purpose for human existence and elaborates a way of life.
How can anyone even think that all these collective matters need no comprehension?
Whatever is not meant for comprehension might have a place in a book of poetry of the genre "absurd", where contradictions and irrelevencies dance hand in hand with their eyes closed, but not in a book that has a vocation to "reveal" whatever information to explain and organize human existence.
In facts, instead of the Genesis-Exodus revealing useful information to explain and organize human existence, it is humans that have passed millenia trying to "interpret" and make sense of the Genesis-Exodus, and it has not ended... yet.
Some of the fundamental information the Genesis-Exodus "reveals" and which present major issues of incoherence or contradiction will be presented, for you to decide if the information can claim validity to exist, before claiming validity to "guide" humanity.
But what about events that are totally illogical and impossible to have happened at least in the way they were told? These are events; we cannot prove them wrong or as being contrary to logic, since probability steps in.
When events are concerned, the "impossible" does not exist. We can talk of highly improbable events, nothing more.
Events like falling from an airplane on a bed of hard rock and surviving is still possible, because there is one chance in a very huge astronomical number that the event could have happened for some exceptional reason.
Of course this event can also be possible for a simple reason someone "forgot" to mention (a parachute maybe...). "Memory lapses" may create miracles.
Most of my arguments, be they about errors, incoherencies, contradictions, or highly improbable events in the Genesis-Exodus may be totally wrong.
Finding errors in my logic or any kind of error does not make me wrong to be discarded and the Genesis-Exodus hence all three monotheisms true.
If this book succeeded or still succeeds in finding and proving only one error in one of the pillars of the Genesis-Exodus, it would prove at least one of the following true:
The monothjeism-presented Creator makes logical mistakes or acts with incoherence,
Or,
The people recording the "revelation" are wrong or making mistakes.
In both cases the Genesis-Exodus that is considered to be the unmistakable "word of God" becomes unreliable and dangerous to follow, because the Genesis-Exodus becomes the chronicle of an entity who can be wrong or it becomes man-dependent, reflecting all the limitations characterizing man at that period of history.
Of course it will be claimed that there is no escape from being man-dependent, hence the errors, because the prophet only transmitted what he understood and only in a way that he could.
But God knows perfectly well what "level" of "revelation" the human prophet is capable of understanding perfectly or transmitting perfectly.
Even men know the fact that it is problematic, even dangerous to "reveal" something to somebody who will not understand it fully.
Making man think he understands the thing he does not, is worse.
But encouraging him to use the things he thinks he understands but does not, is literally initiating a series of erratic and incoherent actions which can only lead to an existential chaos.
All the errors committed by the prophet while transmitting God's "revelation" can only result from the "revelation" being non-adapted to the prophet.
God was surely capable to insure an adapted "revelation", and an "errorless" record of His "revelation".
Why would God want errors and misinterpretations to take hold of His "revelation"?
Any error, contradiction or incoherence is God's doing, and by definition is always voluntary.
I suggest that the "claims" of monotheists about this issue stop here, since any "plausible solution" will involve making God incapable of an "adapted" "revelation".
Of course all the standards, like:
"Who are we to tell God how to do His "revelation",
"God works in mysterious ways",
also work... but will make agnostics smile...
So how dare I say that I can be as wrong as I need to be, but only one fundamental error or incoherence invalidates the Genesis-Exodus hence monotheism?
Because:
God cannot make errors. All it takes is one...
But I am a man, and being wrong characterizes me. All it takes is all minus one...
I am not the one claiming to present an infallible book (God's word) about the most infallible being who created the universe, all His deeds, intentions and reasons, presented as this infallible being wanted them to be presented.
If somebody claims a house impenetrable (infallible), you do not need to penetrate the house from everywhere to prove him wrong. Succeeding in penetrating the house from any single location will definitively defeat the claims of impenetrability.
If I have succeeded or yet succeed in proving any major error of logic concerning a single pillar of monotheism, it all falls apart, since the one God can neither think nor act wrong, neither can He allow a false record of His revelation...
This record of His "revelation" (the Genesis-Exodus) will constitute our only guide... to His will... False?
To prove the Genesis-Exodus true, people should prove me wrong not in one, or some, or even "all minus one" of the points raised, but in ALL POINTS RAISED.
Surely they can do that "very easily", but they have to make the absolute interact with the finite first...
The "interaction" of the absolute with the finite will only lead to contradiction or pointlessness.
And since without the absolute, monotheism cannot exist, the Genesis-Exodus is forever stuck with nothing else but contradictions and pointlessness arising from the impossible interaction absolute-finite.
The following heading about the absolute will clarify everything.
If not, then the action or the affirmation is illogical, or the result of a logical error.
We cannot legitimize a logical error by saying:
"Yes it is an error, but it is so beautiful..." or
"Yes it is an error, but you know that logic and monotheism are incompatible", or
"Yes it is an error, but you have to remember that it is a revelation..."
Revelation does not mean "revealing" incoherence as a perfect divine coherence, or logical errors making perfect sense or being more than we can comprehend...
This approach invalidates and mocks comprehension.
Whatever is not meant for comprehension, has no place in a book that organizes a collective of men (a very large collective), brings laws, creates patterns of behavior, decides what is good and what is bad, presents a purpose for human existence and elaborates a way of life.
How can anyone even think that all these collective matters need no comprehension?
Whatever is not meant for comprehension might have a place in a book of poetry of the genre "absurd", where contradictions and irrelevencies dance hand in hand with their eyes closed, but not in a book that has a vocation to "reveal" whatever information to explain and organize human existence.
In facts, instead of the Genesis-Exodus revealing useful information to explain and organize human existence, it is humans that have passed millenia trying to "interpret" and make sense of the Genesis-Exodus, and it has not ended... yet.
Some of the fundamental information the Genesis-Exodus "reveals" and which present major issues of incoherence or contradiction will be presented, for you to decide if the information can claim validity to exist, before claiming validity to "guide" humanity.
But what about events that are totally illogical and impossible to have happened at least in the way they were told? These are events; we cannot prove them wrong or as being contrary to logic, since probability steps in.
When events are concerned, the "impossible" does not exist. We can talk of highly improbable events, nothing more.
Events like falling from an airplane on a bed of hard rock and surviving is still possible, because there is one chance in a very huge astronomical number that the event could have happened for some exceptional reason.
Of course this event can also be possible for a simple reason someone "forgot" to mention (a parachute maybe...). "Memory lapses" may create miracles.
Most of my arguments, be they about errors, incoherencies, contradictions, or highly improbable events in the Genesis-Exodus may be totally wrong.
Finding errors in my logic or any kind of error does not make me wrong to be discarded and the Genesis-Exodus hence all three monotheisms true.
If this book succeeded or still succeeds in finding and proving only one error in one of the pillars of the Genesis-Exodus, it would prove at least one of the following true:
The monothjeism-presented Creator makes logical mistakes or acts with incoherence,
Or,
The people recording the "revelation" are wrong or making mistakes.
In both cases the Genesis-Exodus that is considered to be the unmistakable "word of God" becomes unreliable and dangerous to follow, because the Genesis-Exodus becomes the chronicle of an entity who can be wrong or it becomes man-dependent, reflecting all the limitations characterizing man at that period of history.
Of course it will be claimed that there is no escape from being man-dependent, hence the errors, because the prophet only transmitted what he understood and only in a way that he could.
But God knows perfectly well what "level" of "revelation" the human prophet is capable of understanding perfectly or transmitting perfectly.
Even men know the fact that it is problematic, even dangerous to "reveal" something to somebody who will not understand it fully.
Making man think he understands the thing he does not, is worse.
But encouraging him to use the things he thinks he understands but does not, is literally initiating a series of erratic and incoherent actions which can only lead to an existential chaos.
All the errors committed by the prophet while transmitting God's "revelation" can only result from the "revelation" being non-adapted to the prophet.
God was surely capable to insure an adapted "revelation", and an "errorless" record of His "revelation".
Why would God want errors and misinterpretations to take hold of His "revelation"?
Any error, contradiction or incoherence is God's doing, and by definition is always voluntary.
I suggest that the "claims" of monotheists about this issue stop here, since any "plausible solution" will involve making God incapable of an "adapted" "revelation".
Of course all the standards, like:
"Who are we to tell God how to do His "revelation",
"God works in mysterious ways",
also work... but will make agnostics smile...
So how dare I say that I can be as wrong as I need to be, but only one fundamental error or incoherence invalidates the Genesis-Exodus hence monotheism?
Because:
God cannot make errors. All it takes is one...
But I am a man, and being wrong characterizes me. All it takes is all minus one...
I am not the one claiming to present an infallible book (God's word) about the most infallible being who created the universe, all His deeds, intentions and reasons, presented as this infallible being wanted them to be presented.
If somebody claims a house impenetrable (infallible), you do not need to penetrate the house from everywhere to prove him wrong. Succeeding in penetrating the house from any single location will definitively defeat the claims of impenetrability.
If I have succeeded or yet succeed in proving any major error of logic concerning a single pillar of monotheism, it all falls apart, since the one God can neither think nor act wrong, neither can He allow a false record of His revelation...
This record of His "revelation" (the Genesis-Exodus) will constitute our only guide... to His will... False?
To prove the Genesis-Exodus true, people should prove me wrong not in one, or some, or even "all minus one" of the points raised, but in ALL POINTS RAISED.
Surely they can do that "very easily", but they have to make the absolute interact with the finite first...
The "interaction" of the absolute with the finite will only lead to contradiction or pointlessness.
And since without the absolute, monotheism cannot exist, the Genesis-Exodus is forever stuck with nothing else but contradictions and pointlessness arising from the impossible interaction absolute-finite.
The following heading about the absolute will clarify everything.