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Genesis interpretations - how many are there?
July 10, 2018 at 3:34 am
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Genesis interpretations - how many are there?
July 10, 2018 at 3:43 am
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RE: Genesis interpretations - how many are there?
July 10, 2018 at 3:58 am
Atheists, not believers, are ultimately responsible for the multiple interpretations of Genesis: Every time we have the temerity, the unholy gall, to point out inconsistencies and logical/factual errors in their creation myth, they trot out a new version in a more and more desperate attempt to salvage whatever remains of their clumsy faery story.
In short, there are exactly as many Genesis interpretations as there are fatal errors in Genesis.
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RE: Genesis interpretations - how many are there?
July 10, 2018 at 5:14 am
(July 10, 2018 at 3:58 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Atheists, not believers, are ultimately responsible for the multiple interpretations of Genesis: Every time we have the temerity, the unholy gall, to point out inconsistencies and logical/factual errors in their creation myth, they trot out a new version in a more and more desperate attempt to salvage whatever remains of their clumsy faery story.
In short, there are exactly as many Genesis interpretations as there are fatal errors in Genesis.
Boru It's gotten to a point were it's essentially a choose your own adventure book
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RE: Genesis interpretations - how many are there?
July 10, 2018 at 5:17 am
(July 10, 2018 at 5:14 am)Tizheruk Wrote: (July 10, 2018 at 3:58 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Atheists, not believers, are ultimately responsible for the multiple interpretations of Genesis: Every time we have the temerity, the unholy gall, to point out inconsistencies and logical/factual errors in their creation myth, they trot out a new version in a more and more desperate attempt to salvage whatever remains of their clumsy faery story.
In short, there are exactly as many Genesis interpretations as there are fatal errors in Genesis.
Boru It's gotten to a point were it's essentially a choose your own adventure book
Heh. 'If you slaughter the Amalekites, turn to page 80. If you spare them, turn to page 53...'
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RE: Genesis interpretations - how many are there?
July 10, 2018 at 7:15 am
1 Genesis day = Amount of time it is more convenient for creation to have taken / 7
This does make sense, since we're now in the "rest" day, and God is doing fuck all.
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RE: Genesis interpretations - how many are there?
July 10, 2018 at 7:34 am
The only difference between a holy writings and Harry Potter, is that the fans of Harry Potter are smart enough to know it is fiction.
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RE: Genesis interpretations - how many are there?
July 10, 2018 at 10:15 am
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(July 10, 2018 at 3:34 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Really, can someone tell me how many different interpretations of Genesis are there?
There;s only one that matters...the rabbinic interpretation. The people who came up with the story never thought it was literal in the first place.
It was intended as religious metaphor, poetry, not a news report from the front of theologically unimportant details. On it;s own merits it succeeds at that. Why Some Christians™ feel the need to rob magic book is beyond me.
Drich, for example..up there twisting his scrote trying to reconcile contradictory narratives. The compilers didn;t give a shit. They knew that the narratives were mismatched but it just wasn;t important to them because they didn;t need it to be true in the way that a bathsit creationist does.
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RE: Genesis interpretations - how many are there?
July 10, 2018 at 10:30 am
(July 10, 2018 at 10:15 am)Khemikal Wrote: (July 10, 2018 at 3:34 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Really, can someone tell me how many different interpretations of Genesis are there?
There;s only one that matters...the rabbinic interpretation. The people who came up with the story never thought it was literal in the first place.
It was intended as religious metaphor, poetry, not a news report from the front of theologically unimportant details. On it;s own merits it succeeds at that. Why Some Christians™ feel the need to rob magic book is beyond me.
Drich, for example..up there twisting his scrote trying to reconcile contradictory narratives. The compilers didn;t give a shit. They knew that the narratives were mismatched but it just wasn;t important to them because they didn;t need it to be true in the way that a bathsit creationist does.
If anything I've simplified it and now it reads, and it reads as it does on page. the rabbinic interpretation has one learn the oral traditions first, why it is to be taken metaphorically and 50 other instances where one has to take what has been written to be literal in a figurative way.
Again they could not reconcile the creation narrative as written to fit known truth, the way I show does. or at least provides the reader a path to incorporate what we think we know into the literal garden narrative.
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