RE: Life after death?
July 6, 2014 at 12:20 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2014 at 12:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 6, 2014 at 12:06 pm)whateverist Wrote: Personally, if I were to sort what from the bible was of any use as fodder for wisdom stories, I'd toss everything about creation. It really doesn't matter. It doesn't inform the question of how shall we live.Oh, IDK Whatevs, how are we going to get our heads around to the normative edicts (that follow from this) if we remove the snakes and the sin and the curses bit? That's a fairly important part of genesis, intrisic to "how it all ended up this way" - from the narrators point of view and from the point of view of establishing theology. How could a person not have the question of "how to live" informed, in some way, by this story - and the relative status of their belief or acceptance of it?
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