RE: Why did god create evil?
November 23, 2011 at 9:46 am
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2011 at 10:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:Scholars look for Israelite history by other means because the writings don't conform to normal thinking.
-The words you're looking for are "empirical inquiry".
Quote: It's not fairy tales, it's simply the interpretations that are faulty.
Interpretation? Maybe if I interpret Snow White symbolically it's no longer a fairy tale then? If not why not? Fanciful stories about a paradise lost; with magical fruit, talking animals, and curses covers all the bases for classification as a fairy tale. If you choose the angle that many believe in it's veracity, then it is a legend. If you prefer that it were a morality yarn it would be called a fable.
Quote:Ancient peoples didn't have words to describe spiritual things so they used material representations and labels.-(rest snipped for brevity)
Are you honestly suggesting here that our ancestors didn't have a word for deception? One of the most ubiquitous traits of humanity, engaged in from almost every angle of emotion from benign to malevolent. Why would they have a word for that eh? My Great Uncle Og never called my Great Half Cousin Ug a liar? At what point, btw, is any "spirit" involved in deception? What makes deception a "spiritual thing"? Seems like a fairly material concept to me.
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