Or on drugs.Maybe he saw the idea on the skins of another tribe in the area.Here is where the theory of God falls apart, "where did God come from".
Intelligence. Abraham started off as an atheist, smashing statues of gods, and dismissing ignorant superstitions.
It wasn't until he began to reason intelligently about what the nature of God as a living being must be that the living God appeared to him through dreams and visions...
So based on that one can surmise that God came from an incorporeal realm of conscious life somehow connected to the only thing incorporeal in human beings, the conscious mind.
Either that or he reported the truth, he made contact with superior intelligences from another sphere of intelligent life..
Or maybe he was insane?
Maybe, but so what. That's not grounds for dismissing what he experienced. At least in my opinion.
I think it stands to reason that any person would have trouble grasping and making sense of contact and communication with superior intelligences, what the prophets called "living creatures" without having entered an altered state of consciousness whatever the cause. Maybe he starved himself for forty days and forty nights.....
When Daniel was having visions no one else sitting at the table with him saw or heard a thing. They just felt terrified, didn't know why, and ran away in a panic..If Daniel was just in a trance or having a hallucination that was just in his head like the day dreams of an overactive imagination, why would they all sense imminent danger, panic, and run away if it was actually nothing?
When God speaks the deaf don't hear a thing, but they can feel the thunder.
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