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To: Weatherman123
Flame suit on. But I'm hoping for honest discussion with prayerfully open hearts and minds.

Hmmm, from the construction of your post it looks like your mind is already made up and not open. You start out saying it's a 'creation story/myth' and afterwards you simply refer to it as 'myth'. It seems to me as if you're trying to construct a straw man here so you can knock it down.
23 posted on 12/06/2001 6:54:26 AM PST by Nyralthotep
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To: Nyralthotep
Hmmm, from the construction of your post it looks like your mind is already made up and not open. You start out saying it's a 'creation story/myth' and afterwards you simply refer to it as 'myth'.

My mind is made up on the subject of Genesis being science. It's not. We know scientific facts that were not understood when these stories were written.

You don't believe the creation stories are myths? I'm not saying the Bible is all myth, but parts of it are. Parts of it are poetry. Parts of it are historically based stories. Parts of it are parable. It's a library with many literary styles.

But that wasn't the point of my post. I'm talking about different writters being the author of the library of books we call the Bible. Some folks think it was all written by God himself. That's what I'm open to discussing.

It seems to me as if you're trying to construct a straw man here so you can knock it down.

See how open minded I am? You can go ahead and believe that, but it's not what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to give an example of why I think there were at least 4 different writters of the Torah. That's all.

67 posted on 12/06/2001 7:52:41 AM PST by Weatherman123
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