RE: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis
October 15, 2018 at 3:53 pm
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2018 at 4:07 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(October 14, 2018 at 8:10 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I'm interested in having a discussion about the text from all angles,...
I'm pretty sure it already has been going as far back as Origen and Valentinus. Swedenborg obviously has a unique approach and IMHO worthy of serious study, but he expounded on Genesis and Exodus for 22 volumes. Personally, I see a lot of parallels between Plotinus and Swedenborg. The Swedenborgian perspective the interior meaning of Gen 1 is about the regeneration of the individual soul as it comes to know God. That sounds to me very similar to the Return to the All in the Enneads. Similarly the interior meaning of Gen 2 is about the corruption of the individual soul as it moves away from God. That sounds like Plotinus's Emanations from the All. As far as I can tell the concepts overlap very well.
Otherwise I believe an unserious approach to scripture will produce unserious results. But if you're looking for a Jungian/secular approach, Jordan Peterson has a whole series of podcasts that might interest you.
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