RE: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis
October 16, 2018 at 4:23 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2018 at 4:39 pm by SteveII.)
(October 16, 2018 at 3:50 pm)Grandizer Wrote:(October 16, 2018 at 9:26 am)SteveII Wrote: I disagree. If you do not know where the text comes from, who wrote it, when, the type of literature and that it is different then the rest of the book of Genesis, you can't possible just read it and think you can understand it.
I'm not sure how any of that has to do with whether the first passages in Genesis should be taken "literally" or allegorically.
Wait, if the first chapter of Genesis 1 is a different genre (poetry) than the rest of Genesis; meant to be sung/chanted with nice, grand, metered verses that repeat phrases in a much older dialect of Hebrew; has similar elements to other religions--so may serve to distinguish between some of those; that does not affect anything? I really can't believe you just said that understanding the provenance of the text has nothing to do with the question of literal or allegorical. What is this thread for again?
