RE: The "Cultural Context" Excuse
August 6, 2016 at 10:34 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2016 at 10:38 pm by Rev. Rye.)
(August 6, 2016 at 10:12 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(August 6, 2016 at 9:04 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: How exactly do you know that its 'different form' was humanoid?
It had the ability to reason, could talk, but mainly Because it could sexually reproduce with humans.
Huggy Bear, your arguments to back up the whole "serpent sexually reproducing with humans" thing are still absurdly thin. It's based on readings of verses that take so many absurd liberties, reinterpreted to support the conclusion you were using them to support (does the term circular reasoning mean anything to you?), and the closest thing to a solid allusion is still perfectly compatible (and certainly makes more sense) with the offending passage read as a metaphor than literal, and even that verse still states that Cain and Abel were full brothers.
If you want to make a David Icke-meets-Marquis de Sade OTP Bible fanfic, that's fine, but if you're claiming it's canonical with the Bible, you're going to have to give a better argument. And having your argument hinge on the KJV being the sole arbiter of textual accuracy, despite being based on a text that is, by this point, considered by the vast majority of scholars to be inaccurate.
And zeroing in on one small sentence fragment and using it as an excuse to ignore the rest don't make your position look any better.
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