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If Genesis is Metaphorical, what's the metaphor?

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03-04-2005 7:00 AM 		Reply to: Message 100 by arachnophilia
03-04-2005 1:25 AM

Re: The Historical Symphony
Arachnophilia writes:
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genesis is written like fiction.
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So comes the question:
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Does Life imitate Art or does Art imitate Life?
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In other words, did humanity write the fable and follow it as was mean't to be?
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Or did the Fable spring from the actual motives and yearnings of a desperate humanity in need of communion with the Divine?
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Further, what part does God play? Surely we are more than Deists!
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03-04-2005 7:07 AM 		Reply to: Message 99 by Nighttrain
03-04-2005 12:22 AM

Re: Uh?
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I think we have to pull a much tighter noose around the concept of history when believers use ancient folk tales to justify their actions in the present century.
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Do humans need a communion with God? If so, why not seek Him as a living Spirit? Why do we need confirmation of a link with an ancient story? Why do we need literal proof? Why can't we embrace the divine on a current daily practicality much as the people may have actually done way back when?
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03-05-2005 6:21 AM 		Reply to: Message 110 by CK
03-05-2005 4:16 AM

Re:Why can't we embrace the divine ?
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...because with our current knowledge he sounds made-up and your christian breathen can't burn me to death for saying so.
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Who is the "our" group that you are referring to?
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