What a radical idea, a culture inventing myths and stories to address cultural issues and morality.Christians love to quote the Old English bible translations.
Thee, thou.
Why not Aramaic?
Among the Jews, Aramaic was used by the common people, while Hebrew remained the language of religion and government and of the upper class. Jesus and the Apostles are believed to have spoken Aramaic, and Aramaic-language translations (Targums) of the Old Testament circulated.May 9, 2023
The popular image is of Johnny Appleseed spreading apple seeds randomly everywhere he went. In fact, he planted nurseries rather than orchards, built fences around them to protect them from livestock, left the nurseries in the care of a neighbor who sold trees on shares, and returned every year or two to tend the nursery. He planted his first nursery on the bank of Brokenstraw Creek, south of Warren, Pennsylvania. Next, he seems to have moved to Venango County, along the shore of French Creek,[9] but many of these nurseries were in the Mohican River area of north-central Ohio. This area included the towns of Mansfield, Lisbon, Lucas, Perrysville and Loudonville.[10]
Abe Lincoln is riddled with popular myths I grew up with.The cherry tree myth is the most well-known and longest enduring legend about George Washington. In the original story, when Washington was six years old he received a hatchet as a gift and damaged his father’s cherry tree. When his father discovered what he had done, he became angry and confronted him. Young George bravely said, “I cannot tell a lie…I did cut it with my hatchet.” Washington’s father embraced him and rejoiced that his son’s honesty was worth more than a thousand trees.1
Ironically, this iconic story about the value of honesty was invented by one of Washington’s first biographers, an itinerant minister and bookseller named Mason Locke Weems. After Washington’s death in 1799 people were anxious to learn about him, and Weems was ready to supply the demand. As he explained to a publisher in January 1800, “Washington you know is gone! Millions are gaping to read something about him…My plan! I give his history, sufficiently minute…I then go on to show that his unparalleled rise and elevation were due to his Great Virtues.”2 Weems’ biography, The Life of Washington, was first published in 1800 and was an instant bestseller. However the cherry tree myth did not appear until the book’s fifth edition was published in 1806
I'm picking up God vibrations; he's giving me excitations.I always understood "In the beginning was the word" as "In the beginning was VIBRATION..." (Sound)
I'm picking up God vibrations; he's giving me excitations.I always understood "In the beginning was the word" as "In the beginning was VIBRATION..." (Sound)
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I'm picking up God vibrations; he's giving me excitations.I always understood "In the beginning was the word" as "In the beginning was VIBRATION..." (Sound)
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That explanation is not one you would arrive at from reading Genesis itself- it comes from Paul's Letter to the the Hebrews, and is an attempt to resolve the conflicts between the traditional beliefs of Judaism and its reinvention as Christianity.One moral story I can't understand is Adam and Eve's. the moral of that story according to my wife's pastor are;
What I can't wrap my mind around is if god said
- The consequences of sin.
- The importance of obedience to God.
“You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
God brought us into a world where knowing good and evil is most important to God. God deliberately kept that knowledge from us & then punished us for our God given ignorance. Moral of that story? God set us all up for failure.
Leave? The Roman Empire? They spanned much of the world that they knew, and reception of Jews in places they did know to be outside of it, like Persia, was no more welcome. I don't think leaving would have entered most people's minds as an option.I thought Paul's letter (and the whole point of the Jesus story) was to give Jewish Christians motivation to leave the Roman Empire.
Perhaps more worrying, that passage you quote is a clear-cut and unequivocal lie by God.One moral story I can't understand is Adam and Eve's. the moral of that story according to my wife's pastor are;
What I can't wrap my mind around is if god said
- The consequences of sin.
- The importance of obedience to God.
“You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
God brought us into a world where knowing good and evil is most important to God. God deliberately kept that knowledge from us & then punished us for our God given ignorance. Moral of that story? God set us all up for failure.
Yup!Thomas II, do you fall asleep at night to videos like those? If so, we're alike.
Perhaps more worrying, that passage you quote is a clear-cut and unequivocal lie by God.One moral story I can't understand is Adam and Eve's. the moral of that story according to my wife's pastor are;
What I can't wrap my mind around is if god said
- The consequences of sin.
- The importance of obedience to God.
“You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
God brought us into a world where knowing good and evil is most important to God. God deliberately kept that knowledge from us & then punished us for our God given ignorance. Moral of that story? God set us all up for failure.
Is lying supposed to be the kind of behaviour we would expect from the perfectly good source of all morality?
A&E eat the fruit, and not only notably fail to die that day, but go on to live a long and sufficiently fecund life to establish the entire human species.
And a brief six thousand or so years later, humanity finally developed the fire extinguisher, a device God badly needed for use on his divine pants.