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Major Nikon

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49. There's some value to the poetic aspects of his work, not unlike religious texts

Sat Mar 31, 2018, 09:49 AM

Mar 2018

Just as long as you understand they were intentionally trying to be non-specific so people could derive metaphorical meanings for whatever they wanted. The part that's interesting to me is the attempts to read things into thousands of years old documents that certainly had a completely different meaning at the time. The obviously plagiarized OP is a good example of how people of superstitious faith will miracle them into saying what they want to hear.

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Thinking about Adam and Eve. [View all] guillaumeb Mar 2018 OP

"read as science" - lol nt msongs Mar 2018 #1

Finally, the right spot. guillaumeb Mar 2018 #2

I guess msongs got the joke marylandblue Mar 2018 #16

I agree. guillaumeb Mar 2018 #39

I always thought... yallerdawg Mar 2018 #3

The rib story is, to me, a clue. guillaumeb Mar 2018 #5

Most Christians understand this. yallerdawg Mar 2018 #6

They must so that they can make fun of the theists. guillaumeb Mar 2018 #7

I am not convinced Gil believes his own words marylandblue Mar 2018 #24

Some atheist ask edhopper Mar 2018 #35

Just not a very good one Major Nikon Mar 2018 #9

It translates as rib. guillaumeb Mar 2018 #10

Your own source doesnt say what you think it says Major Nikon Mar 2018 #11

Read it again. guillaumeb Mar 2018 #12

I read it long before you bothered to look it up Major Nikon Mar 2018 #14

Very certain are you? guillaumeb Mar 2018 #38

Kinda funny how you hedged your bet on context and now abandon it Major Nikon Mar 2018 #42

You made a statement. guillaumeb Mar 2018 #43

Only to the sub-literate Major Nikon Mar 2018 #44

Look at the verse from Genesis. guillaumeb Mar 2018 #45

I already did Major Nikon Mar 2018 #47

Yes, Farmer-Rick Mar 2018 #33

Its not that hard really Major Nikon Mar 2018 #34

All in 7 days. It's a miracle, I tell ya, a miracle. nt Ferrets are Cool Mar 2018 #4

My favorite story is still the talking donkey Major Nikon Mar 2018 #8

I like all the smiting SCantiGOP Mar 2018 #13

Apparently that was not literal smiting, but mere flesh wounds nt marylandblue Mar 2018 #15

Just a flesh wound nil desperandum Mar 2018 #19

NOMA Act_of_Reparation Mar 2018 #17

Don't be silly. trotsky Mar 2018 #21

Huh... nil desperandum Mar 2018 #18

LMAO trotsky Mar 2018 #20

No. But it can be read as fable. MineralMan Mar 2018 #22

Not science fiction? zipplewrath Mar 2018 #26

The Bible is not science fiction, because MineralMan Mar 2018 #27

Thus the matter is settled. guillaumeb Mar 2018 #40

But God did not know edhopper Mar 2018 #23

C'mon now. trotsky Mar 2018 #25

King James English, to be precise. n/t Permanut Mar 2018 #31

Are you familiar with the concept of metaphoric language? guillaumeb Mar 2018 #46

I can do better? edhopper Mar 2018 #50

The Resurrection was unnecessary because no_hypocrisy Mar 2018 #28

Man created God to control woman. CrispyQ Mar 2018 #29

It's as valid a metaphor as any other marylandblue Mar 2018 #30

So, what you're saying is that, since you don't believe the account is literal, MineralMan Mar 2018 #32

The names were a part of the initial post. guillaumeb Mar 2018 #41

The part I found most interesting... Major Nikon Mar 2018 #48

You are creating an argument guillaumeb Apr 2018 #58

The OP contains the argument which you obviously didn't originate Major Nikon Apr 2018 #59

Their names, as altered to make sense in English, MineralMan Mar 2018 #54

It also requires... Dale Neiburg Mar 2018 #53

Yes, it does. But, obviously, those things were not known. MineralMan Mar 2018 #55

Oral tradition from about 4000 years ago edhopper Mar 2018 #36

Nostradamus has all the answers too. Voltaire2 Mar 2018 #37

There's some value to the poetic aspects of his work, not unlike religious texts Major Nikon Mar 2018 #49

Disguised indeed. n/t Brainstormy Mar 2018 #51

Oh, so Lilith STILL gets left out of the picture underpants Mar 2018 #52

She never gets the respect she is due. Truly. MineralMan Mar 2018 #56

Or it was borrowed from Sumerian myth and language, in which 'rib' and 'life' are close muriel_volestrangler Mar 2018 #57