(July 30, 2017 at 5:48 pm)Dropship Wrote: The talking snake was just a metaphor for the darker side of our human nature..If it's a metaphor for anything, I think it's more likely a metaphor for one of the following:
- The goddess-worship that was displaced by the rise of the Yahwist cult, and/or
- An initiatory coming-of-age experience when one's childhood gives way to adult knowledge and aresponsibility.
Quote:Technically Jesus was an alien visitor with awesome powers who came to clue us in about things - so isn't it a bit unscientific and illogical not to hear him out?
Did that 53 years ago. Only part that "stuck" was Matthew 25:35-40, which I do try to practise. Further investigations led me to the conclusion that there was nothing all that unique in the message, and certainly nothing that required anything more than a garden-variety mortal human to relay the message.
