(June 16, 2024 at 1:24 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: No literal reading, no original sin, nothing for christs death to fix.
Wouldn't the non-literalist say that the Genesis story of "Adam and Eve eating the fruit of knowledge of good and evil" never happened but some sort of fuck up did happen.
As for the Cain and Abel, there was no such people but maybe at some point, there was some neantherthal or homo erectus or homo habilis that killed another one of their brothers so the jewish god had to wipe them off the map.
(June 16, 2024 at 1:24 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Anywho, as far as the archeological record is concerned, those other questions look to be outgrowths of a singular question about human mortality. In that sense, gods are just background characters in a narrative that predates them and will outlast them. I'm not entirely sure what you would be referencing by primitive humans and what it looks like they believed..but, it looks like the majority of primitive humans (i use this to refer to early full modernity) believed in ghosts...but not gods, and certainly not gods as we conceive of them today (if/when we do).
When I say primitive humans, I mean somewhere in the range of 100,000 y ago to 100 CE or 1700 CE. I guess I should have mentioned that earlier.
You can define it however you like.
What is early full modernity?