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Thread #100473   Message #2021042
Posted By: Amos
09-Apr-07 - 11:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Have you changed your religious views?
Subject: RE: BS: Have you changed your religious views?
Well, I am willing to bet good money the Red Sea never was made to split by some Israeli with an attitude, for one thing. I am pretty positive no-one ever got two of every animal in a boat. I doubt MEthuselah ever lived five hundred years -- or whatever the number was said to be. And I am downright dubious about that Jonah feller. Oh, and the prvenance of Eve, And the notion that the whole species was born out of a couple who had only two sons. II may have that one wrong). Just a few instances off the top of my head.

Now if you want to accept these things as metaphors and myths, and therefore say that they are not deceptive, well, fair enough.

But don't try and hand it 'round as some sort of revealed truth, pal. Leastwise, not to me. Take the comfort you can from it, but keep your devotions private, just like Jaysus said to do.

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