RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
November 28, 2014 at 4:57 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2014 at 5:08 pm by Smaug.)
Quote:It does work better as a metaphor, but then you lose the idea of original sin, which I think is important to the Jesus story.
Yes, I'd say it's one of central ideas for Christian theology but the idea of explaining older myths with newer ones is what a Church may do but not how it has to be done to acheive some understanding of myth's origin. Thus I like metaphorical explanation better because I think it may be close to how this story actually came into existance (it's a know fact that ancient Jews borrowed a lot from much older myths).
Quote:And as I said above, the Catholics have abandoned the Adam and Eve bullshit. The only part they kept is original sin, which brings it to a whole new level of ludicrous.
Well, that's what you get when you try to modernize a heavily dogmatic ideology and make it more friendly and appealing to general population but without shattering it completely.