RE: Why did god create evil?
November 23, 2011 at 2:12 am
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2011 at 2:38 am by dtango.)
(November 23, 2011 at 1:11 am)Old Seer Wrote: It is the history of a people in a particular place, written by them. The Israelis still use it today. To scholars it is a strange writing that they don't understand. Scholars look for Israelite history by other means because the writings don't conform to normal thinking.I quite agree!
I would like to add that the writings not only disagree with our modern thinking but that we lack the information that would have promoted understanding of the texts (any archaic texts).
As an example I can mention the case of the original diaspora of the humanity:
That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.(Gen. 11:9)
We, modern people, actually were scattered from the Near East to all over the face of the earth. This fact (that we are hybrids Homo sapiens sapiens – Neanderthal, the product of the interbreeding of the two groups that took place in the Near East) the scientists found out only last year.
(November 23, 2011 at 1:11 am)Old Seer Wrote: The observations of the snake and it's hidden life is chosen for that representation. Other tribes of that time had the same usage.The common snake symbolizes “Apep,” the main enemy of the gods according to the oldest texts of the humanity The Egyptian Pyramid texts. Whatever is against the gods, whatever it is that displeases them, it is evil. According to my opinion that is the reason for the unfair treatment of the snake because, on the other hand, the Cobra ideogram in the hieroglyphic script means “Goddess.”
(November 23, 2011 at 1:30 am)IATIA Wrote:(November 23, 2011 at 1:11 am)Old Seer Wrote: Ancient peoples didn't have words to describe spiritual things ...
You were doing ... ehh ...OK until I got to "spiritual". This means you believe in fairy tales. Just checking, thanks.
@ Old Seer
Ancient people had neither language problem nor mental problems.
They said that the gods were raping their women. You think of the gods as spiritual beings, therefore you have the problem and not them. Prove that their gods were spiritual and then claim that they had no words to name spiritual things.
@ IATIA
It is not that Old Seer believes in fairy tales, it is you who believe that the ancient texts contain fairy tales.
