Originally Posted by Sunset Poet
Originally Posted by JAPOV
The irony is, that's precisely how most intellectualize God down to their own level...

The skeptical secular view of the Old Testament is that "God" was fashioned in the image of bronze age kings.
Kingdom of God, king of kings, kingdom of heaven, heavenly kingdom, heavenly throne, etc
There is a case to be made that "they wrote what they knew" when they created a God and HIS image.
Genesis made no mention of billions of galaxies, just dominion over what was visible to a mortal eye at the time...but it could have.

It could have read...
"BTW...the night sky collectively referred to as "the heavens" is actually billions of stars each such as the sun (gigantuan burning fireballs) and also there are other complete galaxies. Billions of them."

Genesis also divided nights into days seemingly before nights and days existed.
There is a case to be made that all of this is the flip side of the same coin that is in quotes above.

I wasn't there to see any of this happen. Neither were you.
Read Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy again... Those people knew precisely how many generations they were removed from Adam and Eve. So, belief in God was not a matter of faith... it was a given.

Of course the "skeptical secular view" is contradictory... what else would it be?