(March 10, 2016 at 1:00 pm)Drich Wrote:(March 9, 2016 at 8:32 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The stories in the Bible are ancient ethnocentric Middle Eastern Jewish religious fairy tales. They are not intended to make sense to anyone else. Would a 16th Century Eskimo have understood the ethnocentric Arabian religious fairy tale in the Koran? Do North Koreans give a damn about the Hindu religion deities? Do Swedes care about Venezuelan gangster gods? Did the Spanish Catholics worship the Aztec and Incan deities? Did the Belgians care about the Congolese religions? So why would anyone today actually believe ancient ethnocentric Middle Eastern Jewish religious fairy tales?
yet Christianity spans all races, creeds and man made boundaries.
Christianity is a more marketable form of Judaism. Once St. Paul and others decided to turn most of the OT into metaphors instead of literal stories, the stories transcended Jewish culture. Though I think I can say with almost entire certainty that the original writers did not intend for any of that to happen