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Response to "Believer Why do You Believe" Video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RXmkftK0Sw*     Why does your heaven resemble earth with the same basic materials? It doesn't, we only have human words for those who have seen it to describe what they saw. I recently was in the position of having to find the words to describe a polished single surface floor rendered to look like plastic in the words of a fictional character who grew up in a shoemaker's house in a late medieval village in a house where the floor was probably straw covered dirt, or maybe wood, and stone floors with visible seams or natural surfaces were likely to be the only other options in his vocabulary. I really didn't want to say a floor like a single polished stone, but the only way i could find that he could describe it. Why does your god govern in a way that reflects the period in which he was written about? He doesn't, his system of governance was entirely unlike anything that existed in the time, until he established it, and then it was the on...