You've taken several interesting positions here.
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Originally posted by Martin J. Koszegi:
Adam was not just a detail in the Genesis account, but the writer of its initial chapters
This is absolutely impossible to prove, or even infer. All of the evidence points to several authors.
[QUOTE][b]the later, off-shoot, accounts of the Genesis precedent by the Babylonians, for instance, present "parallels" in their typical pagan fashion.[/b[][/QUOTE]
To support this you'd have to show that the Babylonian stories are younger than the Genesis account. Again, all of the evidence is against you.
[QUOTE][b]The inferior perspective of the pagan culture did indeed host some wierd ideas about how the universe was forged.[/QUOTE]
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But those inferior pagan cultures with thier wierd ideas tell pretty much the same story as Genesis. Doesn't that make Genesis wierd too?
[QUOTE][b]The oldest account of the structure of the universe, the Genesis narrative[/QUOTE]
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Not even close. The Rig Vedas for example are older. So is the Epic of Gilgamesh....
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however, is not dependent on pagan perspectives relative to their take on the nature of the "firmament."
Dependant? No, but entirely consistent with? Yes. Anything in the Bible suggesting otherwise? No. Anything in the Bible resembling what we actually observe about the universe? No.
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