Desert Snake
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Why? You don't think there is even figurative truth in the book of Genesis?
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- Thread starter Iti oj
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Why? You don't think there is even figurative truth in the book of Genesis?
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
Is that even a meaningful question? One can find "figurative truth" in the instructions on a medication bottle or in a mud puddle.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
Eh. Iti may mean he sees no reason to find figurative/metaphoric truth in it because he's not Abrahamic or because it merely perpetuates the idea that it's valid as something more than folklore.
We'll have to wait for him to make that distinction.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
^................
...need I requote my previous post or will you take the time to actually understand it?
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Yep, btw I don't have a problem with that lol, merely asking/
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
You were answering for iti oj, my question was straightforward....you're not making sense at this point.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
@Gjallarhorn
It's the internet, I can't tell if a post is agreeing, sarcastic, or what without some indication of intent.
It's the internet, I can't tell if a post is agreeing, sarcastic, or what without some indication of intent.
Alceste
Vagabond
None. It was a spontaneous revelation, mostly provoked by the observation that religionists of every description are equally convinced of their cosmological rectitude, regardless of how incompatible those cosmologies happen to be.
From there, I sought answers in studies of human psychology rather than religious doctrine, and I have since found few questions that remain unanswered or unanswerable.
From there, I sought answers in studies of human psychology rather than religious doctrine, and I have since found few questions that remain unanswered or unanswerable.
He was popularly known as Doppleganger on these forums.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Were you a theist before?
This works.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Not really. It's o.k. to be not serious about it, I don't really care either way...
How does it not? The events did not happen. The god does not exist. The philosophies and morals underlining the story contradict mine . the bible holds no truth.
Why should I feel differently?
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Desert Snake
Veteran Member
That's different from what Gjallarhorn was saying though...
That's what I meant, Gjallarhorn says of course theres figurative truth in Genesis, then gives those 'other' reasons to hold them as false etc., then you agree with his other examples...doesn't make sense, if you really think they don't even have any figurative truth.
That's all.
I don't understand what your why your saying. Are you equating truth to value?
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Yep. If theres figurative truth, theres value, I don't understand how there could be any value without truth?
That's your miss understanding. I did not say or imply it had no value.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
How could it have value without truth?/
Keep in mind here, were also referring to figurative truth, not just literal