RE: Literalism and Autism
September 10, 2019 at 9:02 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2019 at 9:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You seem to be confused, Acro....atheists don’t have -any- trouble recognizing these stories as stories. That’s what’s being pointed out to you. It takes a believer to believe in a literal Adam and Eve....and this literal belief has been in the majority for all of christendoms history.
Some contemporary believers don’t realize the necessity of special creation to Christ...but that’s an internal problem between themselves and their religion. Each schisms authoritative body has complained about a loss of faith and knowledge in their own communities. Discussions like these with Christians such as yourself tend to reenforce the basic thrust of that trend.
Ultimately, though, it’s great that you recognize the story for its artistic flair, but unlikely that you have its message right. Your Christian lens compels you to interpret the intent of the authors in a specific way.
Where you see good and evil requiring the eventual intervention of Christ, the authors were conveying mans birth, childhood, puberty, and adulthood as a prelude to an imagined family history. The Jews have been telling you guys you got genesis wrong since forever.
It’s an ethnocentric establishment myth, Adam and Eve are only the First People....not the first people. It tells The People that they are god’s children, prelude to chosen, tracing the interim through kinship.
Some contemporary believers don’t realize the necessity of special creation to Christ...but that’s an internal problem between themselves and their religion. Each schisms authoritative body has complained about a loss of faith and knowledge in their own communities. Discussions like these with Christians such as yourself tend to reenforce the basic thrust of that trend.
Ultimately, though, it’s great that you recognize the story for its artistic flair, but unlikely that you have its message right. Your Christian lens compels you to interpret the intent of the authors in a specific way.
Where you see good and evil requiring the eventual intervention of Christ, the authors were conveying mans birth, childhood, puberty, and adulthood as a prelude to an imagined family history. The Jews have been telling you guys you got genesis wrong since forever.
It’s an ethnocentric establishment myth, Adam and Eve are only the First People....not the first people. It tells The People that they are god’s children, prelude to chosen, tracing the interim through kinship.
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