Originally posted by Count Iblis II:
[QUOTE]Put yourself in the position of Mozes during the Exodus. The people you are leading are not listening to you and there is anarchy. You must impose law and order, the problem is that they won't accept any laws made by you. So, you pretend that the commandments were made by God. You must, of course, present it in such a way that the people will believe that. So, there must be some ''proof'' of God.
Today's leaders have led us to Iraq using ''proof'' of WMD, so not much has change since Biblical Times.
on the other hand, put yourself in the head of an alien that looked nothing like humans. its much easier to pretend to be god and get one man to take the orders to the masses with a few fireworks thrown in to back up those commands. they would have known from watching man and from watching a few of the ppl that were in the group, that if they held moses up in the mountain long enough, there would be plenty of excuse for those fireworks. once the ppl got a load of those fireworks, getting them to follow the chosen leader would be a snap.
im not saying that the bibilical god is or was an alien, just pointing that out.
personally, i do believe that most of the "gods commands" were more something that was wanted by the person that recieved the command, to get the chruch exactly the excuse to do what the ppl running it wanted.
