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Post by Rodney Farber on Jul 4, 2024 21:51:14 GMT
(New World Translation; Genesis 1)
How do we know that's true? Nobody was alive to write it down. Was it just something some evangelist told his flock so that they would follow him?
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Post by amyghost on Jul 5, 2024 11:56:59 GMT
All creation myths have to have a beginning (hint: that's the 'creation' part). They all arise out of the universal consciousness, no one witnessed them, and human beings will continue to create and embroider them--and use them to control or lead others when it serves their purposes to do so--as long as there are human beings. The OT version may be one of the more convolutedly silly, and often self-contradictory, of those genesis mythos, but no human society as ever been without their own version of what happened "in the beginning."
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Post by needysboy on Jul 5, 2024 23:51:24 GMT
I think that like the preamble to the Gospel of John, Genesis is symbolical or allegorical. So, it's true in a figurative sense.
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