RE: The "Cultural Context" Excuse
August 8, 2016 at 9:38 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2016 at 9:53 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(August 8, 2016 at 8:49 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: You know Huggy is getting desperate when he starts busting out the dictionary definitions, lol.
I use dictionary definitions whenever someone demonstrates that they have no idea what a particular word means.
See below.
(August 8, 2016 at 8:53 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(August 8, 2016 at 8:49 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: You know Huggy is getting desperate when he starts busting out the dictionary definitions, lol.
And deliberately ignoring the ones that work in my favor.
But it doesn't work in your favor.
You clearly stated.
(August 7, 2016 at 12:51 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: It is also worth noting that, in the verse before it, Eve's words heavily imply that it the temptation was not, in fact, sexual in nature: "And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat."*emphasis mine*
As I pointed out, 'beguile' is synonymous with 'seduce', so the implications are there, you just willfully choose to ignore it.
Kinda like you calling the idea that some governments are corporations nonsense, when in fact they are... so there is one point you are definitively wrong on.