RE: Is this a contradiction or am I reading it wrong? Genesis 5:28
March 16, 2023 at 5:57 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2023 at 5:58 am by Fake Messiah.)
(March 15, 2023 at 9:51 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: From the Book of Job: "Who has put wisdom in the innermost being, Or given understanding to the mind? Who can count the clouds by wisdom, And pour out the water jars of the heavens."
So how do you recommend approaching such a text? Well, IMNSHO starting with the assumption that ancient peoples believed in literal jars in the sky pouring water from above would be a remarkably ignorant and arrogant hueristic.
Yeah, atheists, are you so ignorant that you think that Christians actually believe all that crap from the Bible? It is so arrogantly ignorant that you think that Christians believe that a man lived in a belly of a big fish, or that donkey talked, and you are at your dumbest when you think that Christians believe that a virgin got pregnant and then some dumb carpenter walked on water and resurrected from the dead. I mean give me a break!
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
