RE: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis
January 23, 2019 at 7:49 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2019 at 8:03 am by Bucky Ball.)
Biblical texts are evidence of nothing. Nothing at all, except what ancient literature looked like.
"History" (as was pointed out above) was not something the culture recognized. Even Rome, (far more advanced),
was not discussing the meaning of "writing history" until the turn of the millennium.
Reading ancient literature as "history" is nothing but uneducated ignorant American Fundamentalism.
The editors/redactors/assemblers of ancient texts had no actual way to know what happened centuries before.
Genesis contains many syncretic elements from surrounding cultures, including Babylonian mythology (such as the flood myth from the XI Tablet of Gilgamesh).
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/c...9&partId=1
DNA refutes the Adam and Noah stories, (genetic diversity and genetic bottle-neck).
Science refutes the flood. There is no world-wide silt layer, among MANY other things.
History refutes the Exodus. Egypt controlled the entire ancient Near east ... why go from one place they controlled to another they controlled ?
Biblical Studies LONG ago moved beyond the literalism nonsense. It's childish and total ignorance of ancient Near Eastern literature.
Apparently there are some "internet amateurs" who never went to school, who think they are exempt from actually getting an education.
If someone is going to take the WAY outdated position that somehow what has been refuted by archaeology is true, and what the consensus of scholarship accepts as fact,
the burden is now on the literalist. We observe that NOTHING in our previous post was even addressed.
It appears that "Perhaps we both could learn from each other" was a dishonest LIE.
He came to shove his ignorance down our throats.
Perhaps starting another thread "The Bible for Third Graders" would be an option for him.
It's always funny ... these people think they know about their Bible ... and in fact non-believers know FAR FAR more about it than they do.
Now, where were we, before being so rudely interrupted ... the binding of Isaac.
"History" (as was pointed out above) was not something the culture recognized. Even Rome, (far more advanced),
was not discussing the meaning of "writing history" until the turn of the millennium.
Reading ancient literature as "history" is nothing but uneducated ignorant American Fundamentalism.
The editors/redactors/assemblers of ancient texts had no actual way to know what happened centuries before.
Genesis contains many syncretic elements from surrounding cultures, including Babylonian mythology (such as the flood myth from the XI Tablet of Gilgamesh).
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/c...9&partId=1
DNA refutes the Adam and Noah stories, (genetic diversity and genetic bottle-neck).
Science refutes the flood. There is no world-wide silt layer, among MANY other things.
History refutes the Exodus. Egypt controlled the entire ancient Near east ... why go from one place they controlled to another they controlled ?
Biblical Studies LONG ago moved beyond the literalism nonsense. It's childish and total ignorance of ancient Near Eastern literature.
Apparently there are some "internet amateurs" who never went to school, who think they are exempt from actually getting an education.
If someone is going to take the WAY outdated position that somehow what has been refuted by archaeology is true, and what the consensus of scholarship accepts as fact,
the burden is now on the literalist. We observe that NOTHING in our previous post was even addressed.
It appears that "Perhaps we both could learn from each other" was a dishonest LIE.
He came to shove his ignorance down our throats.
Perhaps starting another thread "The Bible for Third Graders" would be an option for him.
It's always funny ... these people think they know about their Bible ... and in fact non-believers know FAR FAR more about it than they do.
Now, where were we, before being so rudely interrupted ... the binding of Isaac.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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