User blog:SouthWriter/No Supernatural Intervention

The last blog makes it very clear that I believe in God. And not only that, I believe God. God has revealed Himself to people throughout history - both personally (visions, dreams, etc.) and through miracles.

However, there is a notion - a belief - that postulates God as Creator, and perhaps sustainer and judge, who has chosen to leave humanity alone. This is called "deism," and was the faith of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, among others.

I have created an alternate history that assumes creation and other events in Genesis and the rest of the Bible with the exception of any direct intervention of God. The flood, the tower of Babel (it gets finished), and Sodom and Gomorrah all happen, but are based on things done by man (the flood and Babel) or natural disasters (S & D).

I have started the ball rolling there, trying to keep Bible characters in place without "contact" with God. I am probably a little bit too optimistic so far, and welcome any input that will "set me straight." A fair warning: you'll have to read the Bible to find places where God got involved!

Go on over to History of the World (No Supernatural Intervention) and related pages. Let me know where I have goofed up. We'll see if an truly agnostic world view (with some "believers" in an invisible God based on logic, etc.) can develop into a world anything like the one we've got today. :-)

SouthWriter 21:26, July 6, 2010 (UTC)