RE: Is this a contradiction or am I reading it wrong? Genesis 5:28
March 23, 2023 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2023 at 2:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 23, 2023 at 1:30 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(March 23, 2023 at 9:56 am)Ferrocyanide Wrote: That’s fine, I would imagine that everyone would say that they are trying to be a good reader and that they try not be biased.
What I wanted to know is, do you believe that Jesus is a savior for mankind?
Are you a christian? What is your religion? Do you believe in any god?
IMHO far too many people do not really want to be good readers. Those include believers who seek confirmation for the doctrines of their denomination and disbelievers whose only real interest is in debunking it as if it were a scientific paper or academic history. Yes, I am a Christian but I do not see how that matters. You do not have to be a believing Bhuddist to treat the Lotus Sutra with respect.
Well, your specific and contemporary christian faith certainly matters to any discussion of people reading their current beliefs into the literary product of dead contributors. Reconstructionists run into this all the time.
Still, I agree, it's not a scientific paper or an academic history. The idea that magic book is either of those things or even in the wheelhouse of those things is laughable. Ofc, it seems like the believers themselves will be the first to forget this and so invite correction from a skeptic, just as you introduced "good reading"....
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