The "Cultural Context" Excuse
August 29, 2016 at 8:33 am
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2016 at 8:33 am by LadyForCamus.)
(August 28, 2016 at 11:03 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: And, honestly, so am I. About a month ago, when I entered this discussion, it seemed like an interesting thing to talk about: a guy claiming that the Bible says the Serpent had sex with Eve in the Garden of Eden. But, it just gets more and more depressing. You're defending a position on a work of fiction not borne out by the facts or even the context, grasping at any possible support, even if it makes no sense. And I'm defending the idea that that same work of fiction involves a talking snake convincing a woman to eat a fruit, thus having their God hold a strange grudge against her descendants. But, we're getting nowhere. You make a case, I point out why your case doesn't work.
You take passages, from my responses to the Bible you apparently are supposed to revere, out of context, and claim victory based on this bullshit context. Genesis 4:1 explicitly states that there was indeed a connection between Adam having sex with Eve and Cain's birth, but you continue to insist that there's no evidence that Cain was Adam's son, and, that, in fact, the evidence points against it. You claim that Strong's Concordance proves that the Fall had a sexual component, and I point out that, of the sixteen uses in the Bible, it's only translated as a potentially sexual word ONCE, and then, only by the King James Bible and its imitators. And you latch onto one of the possible definitions that does hint at your claims, and you decide it must be that one. You take what has always been a fringe theory and you insist it's perfectly self-evident, even though it plainly isn't. It is getting old and I am not interested in going through this shit anymore. If this means I have to put you on the ignore list to keep the temptation away, so be it.
And, also, offering up the Strong's Concordance entry you latched onto as proof, despite the fact that it states that, in the Bible, it's almost never used with a sexual connotation, except by translators who evidently had their minds in the gutter, does not count as "offering no evidence."
I wish I could find a copy of that scene from the first season Finale of Better Call Saul where he's calling numbers at a Bingo game and has a meltdown where he decides to finally leave Albuquerque, but I can only find excerpts, and not the moment where he decides to leave. And, of course, I can't let you see that scene in Behind the Blue Door where Georgina Spelvin fucked that snake, because Youtube would never allow it, no matter how much you would have liked it. So, I decided to let Gordon Ramsay handle this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feDNS4h8t6o
Ficken dies in allen Öffnungen I am out.
That was a fantastic scene from BCS. Love that show! Bob Odenkirk is the man.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.