How we use the word "source"

One type of "source" is a document (scripture) that tells a story to claim the existence of a specific god. The Jewish Bible, the New Testament, and Koran are "sources". Another type of source is a book or thought that contains a philosophical or reasoned basis for the existence of a non-specific, generic god. In this site, these two general types are addressed separately because their origin and effect are different.

This is a zero-based approach to analyzing the question. Zero-based means to ignore the historical duration and impact of scripture stories. View them as though they were just revealed today, and we are asked to believe they are the revelation of a god. This view puts these documents in a different frame of reference. A zero-based analysis is necessary to achieve some degree of objectivity.

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