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RE: Is Genesis History?
February 21, 2017 at 8:04 am
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RE: Is Genesis History?
February 21, 2017 at 10:03 am
I looked at the trailer
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RE: Is Genesis History?
February 21, 2017 at 10:18 am
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2017 at 10:18 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
I can save people some money – in no way shape or form can genesis be considered history. This is not subject to debate, opinion, or literary criticism. Genesis is an origin myth, no more related to actual history than the myths of any other culture.
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RE: Is Genesis History?
February 21, 2017 at 10:35 am
Almost want the religio-charlatans to keep fleecing their compulsive gullible flocks, those flocks might eventually learn something when they realize the ones they've given their money too have not the slightest interest in anything Christ taught except it is WAY better to be the one RECIEVING the tithes than the ones bankrolling them.
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RE: Is Genesis History?
February 21, 2017 at 1:08 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2017 at 1:08 pm by Gawdzilla Sama.)
The graduate level Historiography class at Purdue teaches how to spot bad history and gives, via that mechanism, information on what makes good history. I don't think believers would care to apply those rigors to their Bible.
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RE: Is Genesis History?
February 21, 2017 at 1:55 pm
@ OP
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It tells us how the group that came up with the myth viewed themselves, and also a little bit about their version of a dreamtime utopia/dystopia.
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