[Yashcheritsiy]

Er, didn’t you just post this a couple of days ago?

Don’t make me sick humblegunner on you.

[sparklite2]

“Until we better understand their beliefs and religious practices we will continue to impose incorrect or inadequate interpretations on the Bible.”

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To a casual observer, it appears that a God whose word could not be properly understood for thousands of years after having been “spoken,” is not a very good communicator.

[humblegunner]

Why the duplicate? Dissatisfied with the results of your first attempt?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3356800/posts

[humblegunner]

What the hell is wrong with you and all the self-promotion?

[lbryce]

David Noel Freedman wrote, "The Hebrew Bible is the one artifact from antiquity that not only maintained its integrity but continues to have a vital, powerful effect thousands of years later." Anthropologists and archaeologists turn to the Bible for clues and data. Very often this has led to wonderful discoveries!

As a student of the Bible, Old Testament, one of the most glaring contradictions between what was mentioned in the Bible and that of which we know of genetics is that genetic characteristics are not adopted by potential offspring simply by viewing colors, shapes or designs. Yet as mentioned in Genesis 30:40, the Old Testament,the adoption of certain characteristics by sheep does occur simply by viewing those very characteristics as facilitated by Jacob in Genesis 30:40.

Genesis 30:40
Jacob Prospers
So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted. 40 Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban's flock. 41 Moreover, whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might mate by the rods; How is this possible knowing that such phenomena can not occur according to the laws of genetics?

[sasportas]

A central task of biblical anthropology is to uncover cultural antecedents, such as the origin of messianic expectation.

>>Whats wrong with Gen. 3:15 as the antecedent? Why bring in a bunch of anthropologists to give us some cockamamie explanation about messianic expectation when the Bible is clear enough.

Long before any “anthropology antecedents,” Gen. 3:15 prophesies the Messiah. Both comings of the Messiah, as a matter of fact.

The first one in which the promised “seed” would be wounded in his struggle with the devil (his heel bruised), the second when the promised “seed” would crush the devil’s head.