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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 3874905" data-attributes="member: 63706"><p>If you believe that, why do you keep bringing it up? I agree that the ideas many people get in their heads about what is written in the Bible are off the mark. The Bible itself is mostly a collection of accounts of the history of the Israelites as they grew from a single line to a nation of people. They maintained their identity as a people group through numerous occupations and enslavements by larger civilizations, which is no small feat.</p><p></p><p>Certainly if you don't believe in God, it's easy to be dismissive of the Bible, but to call it fairy tales and bs only demonstrates your own lack of familiarty with the scriptures. If you can read the Bible while setting aside any objections you have about God, and simply accept the fact that the idea of God was important to the story of the Israelites, then there is a lot to be learned from it.</p><p></p><p>I see the creation story as an allegory of not only the process of an individual growing from childhood to adulthood, but of humanity as it grows from a savage hunting/gathering state to a more organized and civil society. The idea of being kicked out of the garden, living off the fat of the land, then suddenly there are too many people, and everyone has to work the land (the advent of agriculture) in order for there to be enough for everyone to eat. We take all this stuff for granted, but just imagine what it was like to be alive in the days when verbal language didn't even exist. How did people think without words to attach to ideas? How did language even develop to begin with? </p><p></p><p>Very few documents exist that can give us this sort of perspective on human history. It's important, and shouldn't be dismissed as nonsense just because you object to the idea of a deity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 3874905, member: 63706"] If you believe that, why do you keep bringing it up? I agree that the ideas many people get in their heads about what is written in the Bible are off the mark. The Bible itself is mostly a collection of accounts of the history of the Israelites as they grew from a single line to a nation of people. They maintained their identity as a people group through numerous occupations and enslavements by larger civilizations, which is no small feat. Certainly if you don't believe in God, it's easy to be dismissive of the Bible, but to call it fairy tales and bs only demonstrates your own lack of familiarty with the scriptures. If you can read the Bible while setting aside any objections you have about God, and simply accept the fact that the idea of God was important to the story of the Israelites, then there is a lot to be learned from it. I see the creation story as an allegory of not only the process of an individual growing from childhood to adulthood, but of humanity as it grows from a savage hunting/gathering state to a more organized and civil society. The idea of being kicked out of the garden, living off the fat of the land, then suddenly there are too many people, and everyone has to work the land (the advent of agriculture) in order for there to be enough for everyone to eat. We take all this stuff for granted, but just imagine what it was like to be alive in the days when verbal language didn't even exist. How did people think without words to attach to ideas? How did language even develop to begin with? Very few documents exist that can give us this sort of perspective on human history. It's important, and shouldn't be dismissed as nonsense just because you object to the idea of a deity. [/QUOTE]
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