RE: Age of the Universe/Earth
January 3, 2020 at 8:31 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2020 at 8:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Unfortunately, no, the christians got magic book wrong cover to cover, not just some bit about a messiah.
Mainstream jewish thought is dominated by the likes of Gaon and Maimonides. The emphasis is on the ethical rather than factual significance of the stories in old magic book. The creationism that your friend is involved with has nothing to do with any 19th century academic discussion. It's only tangentially related to the initial misapprehensions that created jesusism. It's a contemporary political strategy, meant to bolster a claim to social authority.
Islam, well...they're not at their best right now.
Mainstream jewish thought is dominated by the likes of Gaon and Maimonides. The emphasis is on the ethical rather than factual significance of the stories in old magic book. The creationism that your friend is involved with has nothing to do with any 19th century academic discussion. It's only tangentially related to the initial misapprehensions that created jesusism. It's a contemporary political strategy, meant to bolster a claim to social authority.
Islam, well...they're not at their best right now.
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