RE: Prophecy doesn't make sense
March 5, 2021 at 9:21 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2021 at 9:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Retconning christ was a lucrative business. Funny thing, ofc, is that the OT doesn't say any such thing, and the christians failed to sufficiently retcon christ even to the tortured horoscope-style beliefs they held. Apologia.
Still, we think that something like that also happened with the OT narratives. Particularly because we know that they're a product of exile and diaspora literature - but they purport to recount specific viewpoints in a pre-exile community. Like any other psuedo-history, we suspect that the author added detail - but it's neither beyond the realm of plausibility or entirely without hard evidence that there were critics at the time espousing those viewpoints and, in the full light of history...even if the region didn't fall for their stated reasons..it most assuredly did fall.
If the world ended, and fox was reporting......sort of thing.
Just as the later writers and compilers of the christian narrative preached an immanent destruction as an effort to mimic the style of those earlier complaints and play on those same human behaviors and impulses that doomism enjoys......
Still, we think that something like that also happened with the OT narratives. Particularly because we know that they're a product of exile and diaspora literature - but they purport to recount specific viewpoints in a pre-exile community. Like any other psuedo-history, we suspect that the author added detail - but it's neither beyond the realm of plausibility or entirely without hard evidence that there were critics at the time espousing those viewpoints and, in the full light of history...even if the region didn't fall for their stated reasons..it most assuredly did fall.
If the world ended, and fox was reporting......sort of thing.
Just as the later writers and compilers of the christian narrative preached an immanent destruction as an effort to mimic the style of those earlier complaints and play on those same human behaviors and impulses that doomism enjoys......
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