Favourite Genesis

Which story do like best? One or two?
Or neither.

(Is there a third I don't know about?)

@wolfgang59 said
Which story do like best? One or two?
Or neither.

(Is there a third I don't know about?)

The scriptures about Abraham explain a lot of things.

Creation, G of E, the Flood, Tower of Babel? Sounds like hyperbole, because these were written for/by ancient man, not modern man. I approach them as lessons, not absolute fact. They sound like someone was trying to explain them away.

@suzianne said
The scriptures about Abraham explain a lot of things.

Creation, G of E, the Flood, Tower of Babel? Sounds like hyperbole, because these were written for/by ancient man, not modern man. I approach them as lessons, not absolute fact. They sound like someone was trying to explain them away.

My fingers didn't type what my brain was thinking!


I was thinking about the Creation myths.
Two (?) in Genesis.
Which one is the best as a work of fiction or fact.

@wolfgang59 said
Which story do like best? One or two?
Or neither.

(Is there a third I don't know about?)

Neither.
No idea.

This is not as good a quiz as your ones in the General Forum.

@suzianne said
I approach them as lessons, not absolute fact.

What lesson do you find in the Biblical claim that a man was created from dust into God’s image?

Ah a thumb down already.
Glad you’re reading Suzianne 🙂

@divegeester said
What lesson do you find in the claim that man(kind) was created from duct into God’s image?

No 'duct tape' was involved.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
No 'duct tape' was involved.

Are you going to answer for Suzianne again or should I wait for her to reply?

@divegeester said
Are you going to answer for Suzianne again or should I wait for her to reply?

I love how you repeatedly accuse me of that and then proceed yourself to answer for others.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I love how you repeatedly accuse me of that and then proceed yourself to answer for others.

I only remind you of it at appropriate junctures, like this one.

But while we are on the subject, what is it with you and her? Online romance?

@divegeester said
I only remind you of it at appropriate junctures, like this one.

But while we are on the subject, what is it with you and her? Online romance?

I like genuine people.

@wolfgang59 said
My fingers didn't type what my brain was thinking!


I was thinking about the Creation myths.
Two (?) in Genesis.
Which one is the best as a work of fiction or fact.

I think all creation stories served a purpose for the humans who created them.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I think all creation stories served a purpose for the humans who created them.

Of course they do, and they are entertaining for others. Most of us
enjoy Greek & Norse mythology without believing it factual .. and
perhaps there are allegorical "truths" within those myths.

But it's really puzzling that the OT has TWO creation stories. The only sense that
makes is if the editors of Genesis are saying "These stories are not true but both
have value in their messages".

For me I like the idea of Eve being made from Adam's rib.
It's saying man is incomplete without a partner and loneliness isn't a weakness.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I like genuine people.

Me too, don’t we all.

In fact I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who has expressed a preference for disingenuous people.

@wolfgang59 said
But it's really puzzling that the OT has TWO creation stories.

What is more interesting for me is that there is an apparent contradiction between the two accounts, which incidentally I don’t think are two “stories” but two perspectives on one story.