@josephw saidAnd what is your basis for this subjective interpretation and declaration? Your faith?
But the Genesis account of creation isn't metaphorical. There are no metaphors, figures of speech, allegorical language or symbolisms in the text. Creation happened literally the way it is described.
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@pb1022 saidOf course. Genesis is an example of an "antiquities", as the Romans called this type of literature, a popular genre telling of the appearance of humans and the ancestors and heroes, with elaborate genealogies and chronologies fleshed out with stories and anecdotes. There were many such 'books' in ancient times.
You do realize, don’t you, that the book of Genesis is about much more than the creation account?
Now, I'll tell you why the Jewish one cannot be true history. If everyone on the planet had been wiped out by a global flood, except Noah and his immediate family, then everyone on the planet today would be Semites and this would show up in their DNA. Such is not the case, however. There are people and peoples who are not Semites; this is genetic fact, not theory or speculation. Therefore, we are not all descended from Noah and his immediate family, Therefore, there was no global flood which extinguished all life save for those aboard a boat.
Moreover, if the human race had had to regenerate itself from Noah and his immediate family, we wouldn't be here. Incest leads to infertile off-spring after only five or six generations. (The human race cannot have descended from only two people either, Adam and Eve.)
@moonbus saidWhat makes you think Noah was Jewish?
Of course. Genesis is an example of an "antiquities", as the Romans called this type of literature, a popular genre telling of the appearance of humans and the ancestors and heroes, with elaborate genealogies and chronologies fleshed out with stories and anecdotes. There were many such 'books' in ancient times.
Now, I'll tell you why the Jewish one cannot be true history. ...[text shortened]... r six generations. (The human race cannot have descended from only two people either, Adam and Eve.)
Jews are descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - not Noah.
And tell me how the theory of evolution just happened to create males and females with effective and functioning reproductive systems intact before they had sex and offspring.
@moonbus saidMissed this point:
Of course. Genesis is an example of an "antiquities", as the Romans called this type of literature, a popular genre telling of the appearance of humans and the ancestors and heroes, with elaborate genealogies and chronologies fleshed out with stories and anecdotes. There were many such 'books' in ancient times.
Now, I'll tell you why the Jewish one cannot be true history. ...[text shortened]... r six generations. (The human race cannot have descended from only two people either, Adam and Eve.)
<<Moreover, if the human race had had to regenerate itself from Noah and his immediate family, we wouldn't be here. Incest leads to infertile off-spring after only five or six generations. (The human race cannot have descended from only two people either, Adam and Eve.)>>
You’re talking about the effects of that today (or in modern times.) You don’t know that that same effect existed in Biblical times.
@pb1022 saidThe laws of physics have not changed in the last 3,000 years.
Missed this point:
<<Moreover, if the human race had had to regenerate itself from Noah and his immediate family, we wouldn't be here. Incest leads to infertile off-spring after only five or six generations. (The human race cannot have descended from only two people either, Adam and Eve.)>>
You’re talking about the effects of that today (or in modern times.) You don’t know that that same effect existed in Biblical times.