You've never heard this before? Are you claiming I am the originator of this idea quoted above?
Of course not. I would never be so foolish as to suggest that you had had an original idea.
Your post looks like the usual argument I often see...sort of just sumink to say as some "come back" be it though feather light as a come back in weight.
Yeah, I understand. If you don't think about what people say, it carries no weight at all.
So, when you say: "you are making it up as you go along.". Are saying "you know this because the bible doesn't describe this, and because you read it? ".
No. When I say something, I am saying the thing I said.
I am
never saying the thing you would rather I had said.
And I don't share your faith in the Bible, or consider what it says (or doesn't say) to be of any particular value.
That's not comparable to the 'multiple' biblical authors of the bible..
I was not making any comparison to the bible. It doesn't matter how many authors the bible had; It matters whether they are right or wrong.
which must require at least two or more witnesses for any doctrinal claim.
The bible includes no witnesses at all; Its authors are all long dead. Anyone can write about a million witnesses; You still only have one claimant, plus 999,999 "witnesses" that they just fabricated from thin air.
The bible has many authors!
Unfortunately, for your guru Sagan, with a claim like that.
Sagan is not my "guru", he just happens to have come up with a good argument in this case, which I was honest enough to attribute to him. It matters not one whit to the argument who made it first. As with ALL atguments, it stands or falls on its merits, never on its source. Hence why I give zero shits whether the source of your nonsense is the Bible, or some long dead pope, or your favourite youth pastor, or your own imagination.
He would be the lone witness and lone author of his "dragon in the garage" book - just like some of the other known religions that originated from sole authors, even though these religions do have many followers and religious leaders.
You can't see the wood for the trees, can you?
Sagan's story isn't supposed to be the truth; It's an analogy, that is supposed to make you think about how your own story is just as difficult as his, for a sane person to give credence to.
Adding? As opposed to anyone distorting the theist concepts of the bible? Oh but of course, you've misread the scripture and "you know it quite well'.
I don't give crap the first about "the scripture". I am not having a discussion with "the scripture". I am addressing the things YOU say, IN THIS THREAD. Whether you got those things from scripture, or from the complete works of Shakespeare, or from the Bumper Book for Boys, is of
zero import - an idea stands on its relationship with reality, not on the identity of its originator(s).