On Apr 7, 2005, at 3:12 PM, maru wrote:
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Ah, so the marginal texts are the Old Testament books, as opposed to New Testament books.On Apr 7, 2005, at 2:50 PM, maru wrote:
'marginally-relevant texts'? An example please; So far I've only seen various perversions of the Bible (Unless you count Mel Gibson using the ravings of a delirious German nun in his /Passion/.).
Perversions of the Bible don't affect its relevance as source material for wisdom. There's wisdom to be found in it, just as the Bhagavad Gita, the Dhammapada and the Koran contain wisdom.
The *marginal* relevance to which I referred is, in my mind, the way that Biblical myths have been used to assert the nature of reality. Six-day creation, Intelligent Design, and the Noachian deluge being the cause of the Grand Canyon, for instance.
(BTW, if the deluge really happened, how does this explain the existence of Meteor Crater, which is +10,000 years old? Shouldn't the flood have filled it in with sediment? Wonder what ICS has to say about that...)
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
I see now.
:D
Not really. Virgin conception is impossible,
I am not a fertility specialist, nor do I play one on TV, but even I can think of ways to implant a fertilized egg in a woman's uterus without her having ever had sexual intercourse and while leaving her a _virgo intacta_ to examination.
though there's some wiggle room there -- IIRC the original text had it as "behold, a young woman shall conceive".
Which is correct, afaik.
Lazarus was never dead. No one else was resurrected either.
I take it you were there, then?
And the epistles of Paul, while effective at establishing and maintaining the infant cult of Iasus, read like a lot of hard-right propaganda, which to me is more or less what they are.
Revelation is also hooey.
You say that like someone who has the sure word of God on that issue . . .
--Ronn! :)
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