Your entire religious faiths are founded on the idea that your "real" self is stored in some intangible, invisible, undetectable information-entity container you call a "soul", and that the human body is just a vessel for said soul.
By your own base principles, there is no reason there couldn't be an oopsie at some point in creation or development.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you're going to make shit up, you can't get mad when other people join in on the game of calvinball and make up more shit to tack onto your shit.
To be fair, you guys do this to yourselves.
Your entire religious faiths are founded on the idea that your "real" self is stored in some intangible, invisible, undetectable information-entity container you call a "soul", and that the human body is just a vessel for said soul.
By your own base principles, there is no reason there couldn't be an oopsie at some point in creation or development.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you're going to make shit up, you can't get mad when other people join in on the game of calvinball and make up more shit to tack onto your shit.
The history of sectarian schisms, dogmatic disputes, and even the other comments here arguing against strawman Gnostics proves that you're wrong.
Yes, people wasting entire lifetimes arguing over their favorite version of their favorite work of fiction is proof of the validity of that fiction.
By that logic, star wars is a real tradition, and jedi is a legitimate religious occupation.
I never made such a claim.