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To: CatherineofAragon

He also made a reference to “Abraham’s bosom” and to an afterlife where a rich man who didn’t follow Torah could yell across a chasm to beg Abraham send Lazarus with water (Luke 16). I don’t know many Christians who look to Abraham’s Bosom or even Sheol as literal accounts of the afterlife, though.

So again, the issue with a historical Adam & Eve or Flood is not that the bible says it—but rather, what the biblical writers meant by it. Genre matters, which is why non-Young Earth Creationists can read the same creation accounts as their YEC peers and not come to YEC conclusions.


12 posted on 08/07/2014 4:15:10 PM PDT by The Grammarian
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To: The Grammarian

Okay, well, I guess Jesus was mistaken, then. /s


14 posted on 08/07/2014 4:24:25 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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