[MD] Intellect in the Bible?

[markhsmit]

On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:29:06 AM, skutvik at online.no wrote:
The 4th. level isn't knowledge of how to do anything, nor of knowledge 
of good and evil, it can best be recognized as SKEPTICISM. In the 
ancient times when social value was top notch skeptics were absent, 
no one (for instance) in Israel said to a prophet "are we supposed to 
believe this nonsense?" The social age was (what we call) magical. 
Intellect emerged when the Greek thinkers started to look for - and 
found - principles (natural laws) beyond the myths. This was the 
budding skeptical science that by and by over-ran the mythological 
(social) reality. The Semitic type religions the last strongholds.
Hi Bo,
This is an interesting proposition.  It would imply that the world as we
see it now, is more real than the world as seen back then.  Through
my readings it would seem that people were just as skeptical back
2000 years ago.  In fact, it was only a small minority that saw the
benefit of a kind and just God over one with a bad temper.  There are 
just as many followers of enlightening philosophies in this day and
age as there were back then.  In my opinion, the only thing that
makes natural laws seem more real to us is our collective agreement on
them, and the amount of detail that is used to describe them.  Have
you ever seen gravity?  What is your experience of quantum mechanics?
We trust what we are taught, but I wouldn't say that it is more real.


Cheers,
Willblake2