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To: NorthstarMom

The issue here is that the bible is really a library of different literary genres... Genesis is a narrative not literal history (impossible to document all of creation), it is vastly different in genre from Leviticus, Exodus, the Gospels, The Epistles etc.

Ignorance of genre is ignorance of the nature of scripture.


114 posted on 10/29/2014 6:48:20 AM PDT by rwilson99 (Please tell me how the words "shall not perish and have everlasting life" would NOT apply to Mary.)
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To: rwilson99

I’ve also come to understand that not only does the style not translate to English from Hebrew very well,

but there is SO MUCH Jewish background/cultural knowledge that is assumed in the writing that just gets lost coming into a comparatively juvenile English language.


115 posted on 10/29/2014 6:51:25 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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