Re post 543
“Why? Because they were illiterate or too stupid to notice? In a word, no. The sort of literal accuracy you;re looking for (swear exists, even, lol) just wasn't a key aim of the narrative.”
“So, we get the message, we get a few just-so as cultural filler, and voila.....but then a bunch of christian nitwits come along and read the book wrong. Theyre told from the outset they've read the book wrong..but they're pretty sure that the jews cant jew right....so they persist anyway.”
“Is the bible accurate, and literally true..and genesis in specific? No..and in it's defense it was never intended to be.”
I am so dense as to take the Bible literally; as it was written, in the context in which it is written, in the style it was written, for the purposes of which it was written. It is quite amusing to hear your wisdom in regard to how, why, & for what purpose we have Genesis.
If you read something as it is written - it is then easier to get something out of it.
How is it that you can affirm “Is the bible accurate, and literally true..and genesis in specific? No..and in it's defense it was never intended to be.” Millions of people over thousands of years have long missed your penetrating insight - Genesis was never intended to be read as & understood as truth.
I would think there has been hundreds of commentators on Genesis. All of them wasted their time as they lacked your knowing that Genesis was never meant to be taken literally. Would you be so kind as to tell me of any other books of the Bible that are also so fictional?
Donald
“Why? Because they were illiterate or too stupid to notice? In a word, no. The sort of literal accuracy you;re looking for (swear exists, even, lol) just wasn't a key aim of the narrative.”
“So, we get the message, we get a few just-so as cultural filler, and voila.....but then a bunch of christian nitwits come along and read the book wrong. Theyre told from the outset they've read the book wrong..but they're pretty sure that the jews cant jew right....so they persist anyway.”
“Is the bible accurate, and literally true..and genesis in specific? No..and in it's defense it was never intended to be.”
I am so dense as to take the Bible literally; as it was written, in the context in which it is written, in the style it was written, for the purposes of which it was written. It is quite amusing to hear your wisdom in regard to how, why, & for what purpose we have Genesis.
If you read something as it is written - it is then easier to get something out of it.
How is it that you can affirm “Is the bible accurate, and literally true..and genesis in specific? No..and in it's defense it was never intended to be.” Millions of people over thousands of years have long missed your penetrating insight - Genesis was never intended to be read as & understood as truth.
I would think there has been hundreds of commentators on Genesis. All of them wasted their time as they lacked your knowing that Genesis was never meant to be taken literally. Would you be so kind as to tell me of any other books of the Bible that are also so fictional?
Donald
