RE: Ecclesiastes 9:5
August 2, 2023 at 3:53 pm
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2023 at 4:19 pm by Bucky Ball.)
There are all sorts of incorrect data in the Bible. Genealogies that are wrong, incorrect things about insects, l(bats are birds) linguistics, history etc.,
and in general the principle stated by Paul, that "gods ways are not mans ways", and that he is inscrutable.
In the stories of the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac Jacob) we read about camels and caravans of camels, although the stories happened before camels were domesticated in the Levant region
and before the trade-routes of camel caravans opened.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biblical_s...fic_errors
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
Romans 11:33-34
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?
"Inspiration" was not claimed by the Hebrew authors, and even as late as Timothy's claim,
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works" there was no canon yet, so it's just all pious writing, at that point.
What is remarkable, is that the redactors / editors / assemblers of Genesis, got the point of the Babylonian myth they took the Garden Myth from,, (Marduk Slays the Dragon of Chaos)
and the Babylonian origins myth, (Enuma Elish) as discussed in the famous Jewish philosopher and author's (Martin Buber) book, "Good and Evil" (part II), and confirmed by Paul Tillich, Christian theologian and writer from the last century in "The Courage To Be".
and in general the principle stated by Paul, that "gods ways are not mans ways", and that he is inscrutable.
In the stories of the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac Jacob) we read about camels and caravans of camels, although the stories happened before camels were domesticated in the Levant region
and before the trade-routes of camel caravans opened.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biblical_s...fic_errors
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
Romans 11:33-34
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?
"Inspiration" was not claimed by the Hebrew authors, and even as late as Timothy's claim,
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works" there was no canon yet, so it's just all pious writing, at that point.
What is remarkable, is that the redactors / editors / assemblers of Genesis, got the point of the Babylonian myth they took the Garden Myth from,, (Marduk Slays the Dragon of Chaos)
and the Babylonian origins myth, (Enuma Elish) as discussed in the famous Jewish philosopher and author's (Martin Buber) book, "Good and Evil" (part II), and confirmed by Paul Tillich, Christian theologian and writer from the last century in "The Courage To Be".
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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