RE: Genesis interpretations - how many are there?
July 10, 2018 at 1:47 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2018 at 1:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
So, by "die" magic book meant "will live a thousand years".
By "dust" magic book meant "carbon"
By "rib" magic book meant "DNA"
....and the sun is a redundant piece of stellar bric a brac to photosynthetics.
I;m not exactly filled with confidence that magic book can say what it means and mean what it says, or that the god that wrote it had a firm grip on how the earth (and it;s biota) formed. This, seems to me..to be more reason to distrust magic book than acknowledging that at least some parts of it are intentionally metaphoric.
By "dust" magic book meant "carbon"
By "rib" magic book meant "DNA"
....and the sun is a redundant piece of stellar bric a brac to photosynthetics.
I;m not exactly filled with confidence that magic book can say what it means and mean what it says, or that the god that wrote it had a firm grip on how the earth (and it;s biota) formed. This, seems to me..to be more reason to distrust magic book than acknowledging that at least some parts of it are intentionally metaphoric.
Quote:bible says Jesus=Son of GodYou just -might- be missing an idiom, not entirely unlike the whole "you will die, will die" spiel daddy god gives his naked garden frolicking teenagers.
Quote:bible says Jesus to take part in 7 day creationIdiom, again. Seven was considered a sacred number, it;s use denotes perfection of process, not a strict accounting of a length of time.
Quote:bible says Jesus to actually enact bring fourth the will of the father here.....and?
Quote:Again it does not matter what people think about God. If you are worshiping the God of the bible then it only matter what the bible says about God. do you dig that?I still don;t see any necessity for a literal reading of genesis.
Quote:If The bible says Jesus says he was apart of ABC then that become cannon which becomes apart of the belief system. take away this work and Jesus is not what He claims to be.Your inability to believe in the event that genesis is the fairy tale that it;s always been is no barrier to god belief..or even to there being a god.
Quote:can't see a problem with that? then that is fine let the christians worry about that..............they don;t...though, which is why I asked you. You worry about it enough to make a fool of yourself time and time again where no one else seems to find any need or utility.
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