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macaroniandcheese 
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Message 18 of 50 (266775)
12-08-2005 9:59 AM
Reply to: Message 14 by nwr
12-08-2005 7:19 AM


Re: bab-el
it doesn't say that god gave them different languages, merely that he confused their tongues. oh sure it says he scattered them. away from the project maybe. but it is clear enough that 'the face of the earth' in the old testament maybe stretches as far away as india to spain. maybe. the whole world surrounds the mediteranean. hence it's name.
it is a story about a building and the 'stupid' babylonians who built it. it's a pun and a satire.

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Message 19 of 50 (266779)
12-08-2005 10:05 AM
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12-08-2005 3:49 AM


Re: another guess
another possibility is that genesis 1 is concerned with all mankind, and genesis 2 and 3 are concerned with the first hebrews ancestors (king and queen?) who were created specially, separate from mankind. they may have even been created sometime after genesis 1's sixth day, years down the line. genesis 1 is one of the few over-arching passages of genesis, the rest seems to be concerned with just the hebrew people, except for the few famous stories, like babel.
so it's possible that "the fall" just lowered adam to the level of the rest of mankind, and removed him from god's favor, which returned with abraham.
hmm
i like this idea. i shall ponder it a while.
(this would naturally make the whole thing false, but it would explain the jewish superiority complex...
"we've evolved" you bitch.

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Message 22 of 50 (266867)
12-08-2005 2:23 PM
Reply to: Message 21 by MangyTiger
12-08-2005 11:33 AM


Re: theories on this
serious-like.

i'm worldwide bitch, act like ya'll don't know.

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Message 31 of 50 (267043)
12-08-2005 11:28 PM
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12-08-2005 5:32 PM


Re: another guess
well because why would god make the jews separate? they're not special.

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