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To: Antonello

Given your lack of documentation, this is all a stretch. Why not just say that the Israelites reinterpreted the story in the light of a new insight or, if you will concede, the revelation of a creator God who cares for his people. If there is any consistent story line in the Bible it is that of a people whose identity is establisheded by disentangling themselves from the mythology of the other peoples of the religion. Only the religion of the Persians follows such a progressive path , unless we include the theology of the Greek Philosophers, so we find them converging and conflicting by the time of Christ.


85 posted on 12/13/2005 7:27:46 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: RobbyS
Given your lack of documentation, this is all a stretch.

Maybe you're right. Maybe this is all a stretch. Of course if you want to know for sure, you could spend a handful of years studying the subject from a historical and archaeological viewpoint.

87 posted on 12/13/2005 7:40:28 PM PST by Antonello (Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
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