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11-10-2004, 11:50 AM | #16 | |
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"I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then getting' upset 'cos they act like people." ~Adam Young, Good Omens "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." ~Adam Young, Good Omens |
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11-10-2004, 12:15 PM | #17 |
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Yup! That's how it was at the time... All the YECs think so.
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"So who do you want me to tell them you are?" "I yam who I yam and that's all that I yam." In the text, it does not seem Moses is confused as to who God is, just that he doesn't know what to tell the peeps at home when they ask what he's been smokin.
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11-10-2004, 12:35 PM | #19 |
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Also, the only thing I've been able to find in Genesis on Cain reproducing has a pretty abrupt jump:
"Cain went to the land of Nod, East of Eden. And Cain knew his wife." No mention of other people created by God, no mention of the incestuous relationship that must have developed if these people weren't created by God and, therefore in the mind of biblical literalists, didn't exist. Incest being a sin/abomination against God/a bad idea, where did the rest of us come from? Where does it mention that Enoch's mom is actually Cain's sister? Or were there other people on earth and Yahweh is just the creator-god of the Jews? Whereas if you take the book as an allegory, a collection of really cool stories that give you a pretty good example of how to live, then it all makes perfect sense. That being said, there is no more intimidating a phrase, when introducing yourself, than "I am sent by the one who is called 'I Am'." Pure biblical bad-ass, in that Samuel L Jackson Pulp Fiction/Boondock Saints prayer sense.
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11-10-2004, 12:48 PM | #20 | |
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I do agree with the notion that Jehovah wasn't saying there weren't other gods...He just meant that He was new, improved, holier-than-them version, and should therefore be The One and Only. This is not altogether unreminiscient of the New Right...
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Also wanted to add this since it's been brought up
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11-10-2004, 06:21 PM | #23 |
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So...I guess this explains Original Sin. If we schtup anyone at all, we're committing incest!
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11-11-2004, 08:41 PM | #24 | |
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11-11-2004, 10:53 PM | #25 |
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Follow up on the Druids.
Who are currently denying actually being Druish. It's research or something ...
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11-12-2004, 06:34 AM | #26 | |
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11-12-2004, 12:08 PM | #27 | |
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Infallegory....ten dollar word.
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He either left with one of A&E's daughters, who would have been incredibly young at the time, or he picked someone up at a dive bar in Nod. Edit: Wolf makes an interesting point. If you regard an English translation of the Bible as infallible, even as an infallegory, then you're already messed up because a lot of the Word of God is lost in translation. Even something as simple as "though shalt not kill" gets screwed up. The original word in Hebrew actually translates to 'assassinate', or 'murder from a hidden place'. Which goes far to justifying all the killing, later on, in God's name.
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