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RE: Primordial Sex--Eden as Allegory
January 5, 2012 at 10:29 am
No not really...ummm ALL OF them!!
There is just so much and the stories go back so far... I love them all.
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RE: Primordial Sex--Eden as Allegory
January 5, 2012 at 10:34 am
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Very cool Mythology is a never ending fascination sort of subject. If I had a bunch of money to waste on an education I would major in it just so I could teach it and talk about it all day lol.
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RE: Primordial Sex--Eden as Allegory
January 5, 2012 at 10:39 am
Ya know at this end of history I wish I had!!
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RE: Primordial Sex--Eden as Allegory
January 5, 2012 at 10:42 am
look, you asked if there was evidence i said there is no evidence. i also said individuals do not punish crimes, government does and since modern governments don't have women marry their rape victims, that's not how they get punished today. i don't know how to make this any more clear.
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RE: Primordial Sex--Eden as Allegory
January 5, 2012 at 10:52 am
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(January 5, 2012 at 10:42 am)chipan Wrote: look, you asked if there was evidence i said there is no evidence. i also said individuals do not punish crimes, government does and since modern governments don't have women marry their rape victims, that's not how they get punished today. i don't know how to make this any more clear.
The issue has never been about governments, I know how governments stand today because they tell us from their own mouths. It's about what God thinks about rape victims today and you have not made that clear in any way shape or form.
I requote myself:
I think...in fact I know....you just can't admit that you're following a religion that has no compassion whatsoever for rape victims and MANY other atrocities.
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RE: Primordial Sex--Eden as Allegory
January 5, 2012 at 11:00 am
LarissaAnn Wrote:I think...in fact I know....you just can't admit that you're following a religion that has no compassion whatsoever for rape victims and MANY other atrocities.
no there is, the culture back then was very different and therefore things had to be done differently. and quite honestly, there wasn't a whole lot of rape back then. not near as much as there is today.
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RE: Primordial Sex--Eden as Allegory
January 5, 2012 at 11:01 am
(January 5, 2012 at 11:00 am)chipan Wrote: LarissaAnn Wrote:I think...in fact I know....you just can't admit that you're following a religion that has no compassion whatsoever for rape victims and MANY other atrocities.
no there is, the culture back then was very different and therefore things had to be done differently. and quite honestly, there wasn't a whole lot of rape back then. not near as much as there is today.
It's not about culture...it's about what God thinks.
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RE: Primordial Sex--Eden as Allegory
January 5, 2012 at 11:27 am
well God thinks it's an evil act. just b/c the punishment didn't seam that bad to you doesn't mean God didn't think it was bad. he always thought it was an evil act.
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Galatians 5:19-21 "Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."
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RE: Primordial Sex--Eden as Allegory
January 5, 2012 at 12:04 pm
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(January 5, 2012 at 11:27 am)chipan Wrote: well God thinks it's an evil act. just b/c the punishment didn't seam that bad to you doesn't mean God didn't think it was bad. he always thought it was an evil act.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
Galatians 5:19-21 "Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."
~hangs head laughing~ I never said God didn't think it was evil, that's very evident....Yet, according to biblical beliefs that god never changes, he therefore would still think rape victims should marry their attackers, God never shows compassion by saying something like let the community ban together to support her living with her family in a single life, not throw the attacker in jail, not it wasn't her fault so you should still see her as pure, etc.. Instead he sees the VICTIM as damaged goods and only worthy of her attacker since he knew her carnally, showing complete disregard for her emotional trauma whatsoever.
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RE: Primordial Sex--Eden as Allegory
January 6, 2012 at 11:30 am
(December 30, 2011 at 11:58 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: I don't look at it very hard because it's all made up and irrelevant.
And theists like yourself deciding which bits are literal and which are metaphorical, always amuses me.
Do not be amused and triumphant. Since texts customarily use literal and figurative language, interpretation is called upon to recognize whether the languge in a given text is literal or metaphorical.
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