Also, it does my head in when people say 'the world could not have been created in seven days....WHY do we think that we have the monopoly on days???!!!!! typical earthlings!! in Genesis it first defines what a day is, darkness and light evening and morning was the first day (neither should we think that we have the monopoly on evening and morning). Then on the fourth day two lights to govern earth day and earth night (sun and moon)....question, by what measure were the previous days? .... a question I ask myself.
Statistics: Posted by TheLordIsMySheppard — 28 Nov 2012, 03:01
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Here's a similar issue that theologians are aware of but priests & preachers deliberately ignore; "The World" is a term used in both Testaments but not in context of the day, an era in which the "known world" was quite limited and nothing close to what we know today as "the world" -- an entire planet. As a result, the great flood of Noah's fame probably didn't entail a global inundation but simply a regional disaster such a Gilgamesh's tale would imply (along with the scores of flood tales that date to about the same period of time and ONLY within the geographic area that would have been viewed as the "Known World" in a pre-bronze-age perspective. Who's to say, given this reality, that the destruction of the known world by fire and a great war wasn't the formal destruction of Rome?
Jesus offers a couple of important points on this issue as well, the first was uttered when he was roughly 12 years old and asked by the rabbi what the whole of the law was, his reply was "To love the Lord thy God with all thy soul and might; to love thy neighbor as they self. . . the rest is but commentary"
In other words, everything outside this most basic tenet, is man putting words into god's mouth -- nothing else actually matters.
The irony is that this "Golden Rule" can be found in EVERY major religious tradition the world over in some form, complete with the suffix factor "Do unto others as you would have done unto you".
Wouldn't the world be a wonderful place to live if man would simply pull his head out of his ass and LISTEN -- to realize none of the other stuff matters; it separates and creates dissension rather than uniting and allowing room for peace to prevail?
Statistics: Posted by Craig Browning — 19 Mar 2011, 23:55
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Statistics: Posted by ProfWag — 18 Mar 2011, 21:04
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