(July 10, 2018 at 10:15 am)Khemikal Wrote:(July 10, 2018 at 3:34 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Really, can someone tell me how many different interpretations of Genesis are there?
There;s only one that matters...the rabbinic interpretation. The people who came up with the story never thought it was literal in the first place.
It was intended as religious metaphor, poetry, not a news report from the front of theologically unimportant details. On it;s own merits it succeeds at that. Why Some Christians™ feel the need to rob magic book is beyond me.
Drich, for example..up there twisting his scrote trying to reconcile contradictory narratives. The compilers didn;t give a shit. They knew that the narratives were mismatched but it just wasn;t important to them because they didn;t need it to be true in the way that a bathsit creationist does.
If anything I've simplified it and now it reads, and it reads as it does on page. the rabbinic interpretation has one learn the oral traditions first, why it is to be taken metaphorically and 50 other instances where one has to take what has been written to be literal in a figurative way.
Again they could not reconcile the creation narrative as written to fit known truth, the way I show does. or at least provides the reader a path to incorporate what we think we know into the literal garden narrative.
