(March 16, 2023 at 5:57 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(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!
Be that as it may, IMHO literal-minded approaches rob people of texts' depth from reaching them, regardless of whether they are JW-AssemblyOfGod-MoodyBible-SouthernBaptist-types or internet atheists. I know I have barely scratched the texts and look forward to understanding them more...particularly in terms of the ancient middle east mindset.
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