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RE: Henotheism in the Hebrew Bible.
December 22, 2022 at 7:38 pm
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2022 at 7:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You're right, Ken Ham calls bullshit on that one. While both dragons and unicorns were on the ark, according to The Hamster, they definitely didn't eat the unicorns.
Quote:Some people claim the Bible is a book of fairy tales because it mentions unicorns. However, the biblical unicorn was a real animal, not an imaginary creature.
Modern readers have trouble with the Bible’s unicorns because we forget that a single-horned feature is not uncommon on God’s menu for animal design. (Consider the rhinoceros and narwhal.) The Bible describes unicorns skipping like calves (Psalm 29:6), traveling like bullocks, and bleeding when they die (Isaiah 34:7). The presence of a very strong horn on this powerful, independent-minded creature is intended to make readers think of strength.
The absence of a unicorn in the modern world should not cause us to doubt its past existence. (Think of the dodo bird. It does not exist today, but we do not doubt that it existed in the past.). Eighteenth century reports from southern Africa described rock drawings and eyewitness accounts of fierce, single-horned, equine-like animals. One such report describes “a single horn, directly in front, about as long as one’s arm, and at the base about as thick . . . . [It] had a sharp point; it was not attached to the bone of the forehead, but fixed only in the skin."
To think of the biblical unicorn as a fantasy animal is to demean God’s Word, which is true in every detail.
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RE: Henotheism in the Hebrew Bible.
December 23, 2022 at 3:46 am
I've seen some damn fine bullocks, from both my perspective and that of dear friends, kind enough to share. If unicorn bullocks are any better, let them shine, Jesus, you cock blocking bastard.
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