Are Old Testament Stories Allegory or Literal History?

[Septic]

It's a good damn question. The meanest I get is to call them hyper-sensitive nancies, which isn't even "religion bashing".

'hyper-sensitive nancies' you say?

What is with you and your WAR on religion?

 

[tumscalcium]

'hyper-sensitive nancies' you say?

What is with you and your WAR on religion?

War on women. War on gays. War on minorities. People use war in a ridiculously stupid sense all the time.

 

[Septic]

War on women. War on gays. War on minorities. People use war in a ridiculously stupid sense all the time.

Totally agree. It's easy to be a victim when everything is offensive.

Brace yourselves for the 'War on Christmas' headlines in the next few months.

 

[n_huffhines]

People enjoy the attention/righteous indignation that comes along with getting picked on/being victims. It's in our nature. And to be clear, I am not talking about religious people, I am talking about everyone.

 

[The Ron Mexico]

Listen guys: I'm tired of all the agnostic bashing on here.

 

[tumscalcium]

Listen guys: I'm tired of all the agnostic bashing on here.

Feels more like a war on agnosticism to me.

 

[The Ron Mexico]

Feels more like a war on agnosticism to me.

I want to take that story to Fox News. Since theyre fair and balanced they should have no problem investigating the WAR ON AGNOSTICISM BY THE KIM DAVIS CAUCUS.

 

[tumscalcium]

I want to take that story to Fox News. Since theyre fair and balanced they should have no problem investigating the WAR ON AGNOSTICISM BY THE KIM DAVIS CAUCUS.

Just remember, it all started here.

 

[orangeluvr]

Totally agree. It's easy to be a victim when everything is offensive.

Brace yourselves for the 'War on Christmas' headlines in the next few months.

Christmas and Easter are the traditions of men…….

 

[Grand Vol]

Totally agree. It's easy to be a victim when everything is offensive.

Brace yourselves for the 'War on Christmas' headlines in the next few months.

Yeah, there's not two sides of that coin or anything...

 

[Deputy Fife]

I disagree.

I think the bigger, more interesting issue is: why have faith in story A, but not story B, story C, etc.? What criteria does one use to accept story A on faith but not story B, C, D, etc. on faith as well?

Being born in Mississippi rather than Saudi Arabia, in 1978 rather than 78,000 BC.

 

[Deputy Fife]

If the entire world was flooded, how did the waters recede?

That's one problem, here's another:

We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards. Were the peccary, armadillo, ant-eater, sloth, agouti, vampire-bat, marmoset, howling and prehensile-tailed monkey, the raccoon and muskrat carried by the angels from America to Asia? How did they get there? Did the polar bear leave his field of ice and journey toward the tropics? How did he know where the ark was? Did the kangaroo swim or jump from Australia to Asia? Did the giraffe, hippopotamus, antelope and gorilla journey from Africa in search of the ark? Can absurdities go farther than this? -Robert G. Ingersoll

 

[Gramps]

Being born in Mississippi rather than Saudi Arabia, in 1978 rather than 78,000 BC.

Name the well know philosopher of 78,000 BC ?

Who was the Religious leader in 78,000 BC?

 

[Grand Vol]

Name the well know philosopher of 78,000 BC ?

Who was the Religious leader in 78,000 BC?

Weren't you around to tell us?

 

[Deputy Fife]

because they do not have the Spiritual receptors (ch 2) to perceive the truths.

So I should roast a puppy because it can't see certain colors?

 

[Septic]

Weren't you around to tell us?

Shots fired.

 

[Deputy Fife]

Name the well know philosopher of 78,000 BC ?

Who was the Religious leader in 78,000 BC?

Why did it take God at least 98,000+ years to reveal himself to humanity? Why did he also make bonobos in his image?

 

[Septic]

Why did it take God at least 98,000+ years to reveal himself to humanity? Why did he also make bonobos in his image?

At least?

The universe is ~14,800,000,000 years old, the Earth is ~4,500,000,000 years old. Our species has been around for for about ~200,000 years. Why did it just choose to reveal itself through a middle eastern carpenter in the bronze age for ~33 years, 2,000 years ago?

I mean, the Chinese were so much further advanced - wouldn't their advanced society have been a better option for the creator of the universe to reveal himself?

 

[Deputy Fife]

Likewise, the typical dating of the Exodus may be wrong, as there is archaeological evidence for a community of Canaanite peoples in Egypt in the 1400s BCE. The destruction of the walls of Jericho also fits with that time.

Moving the timeline creates more problems than it solves for biblical chronology.

 

[The Ron Mexico]

I think some of you people need to visit:

https://answersingenesis.org/

 

[Septic]

I think some of you people need to visit:

https://answersingenesis.org/

I propose a field trip to Ken Ham's creation museum for all us heathens. We could tailgate for a few hours, have a bourbon tasting prior to the tour.

What could go wrong?

 

[Deputy Fife]

At least?

The universe is ~14,800,000,000 years old, the Earth is ~4,500,000,000 years old. Our species has been around for for about ~200,000 years. Why did it just choose to reveal itself through a middle eastern carpenter in the bronze age for ~33 years, 2,000 years ago?

I mean, the Chinese were so much further advanced - wouldn't their advanced society have been a better option for the creator of the universe to reveal himself?

I've started recommending to all my Christian friends a visit to the Creation Museum in Kentucky as a necessity due to its "adherence and commitment to the divine inspiration of the Bible and the conclusions one should make about the natural world given a purported Christian worldview."

I can only hope they'll one day visit and fully grasp the folly of faith, though I can't help but worry that it would just push them further into orthodoxy.

 

[Deputy Fife]

I propose a field trip to Ken Ham's creation museum for all us heathens. We could tailgate for a few hours, have a bourbon tasting prior to the tour.

What could go wrong?

Lol didn't see this, perfect timing, great minds yada yada

 

[Gramps]

Why did it take God at least 98,000+ years to reveal himself to humanity? Why did he also make bonobos in his image?

Just as I thought, you diverted, not answering while trying to change the subject. You are too predictable Fife.

 

[Gramps]

Weren't you around to tell us?

I was, however Fife brought up life in 78,000 BC, just seeing if he just ramdomly pulled a number out of his azz of if he does know anything about that era?