Funny how the deep many-layered meanings of the literal text are always so disappointingly reduced to something trite and boring by the anti-literalist.
jar said "So in the case of the Creation myths found in Genesis, if you accept what the Bible says, it is obvision[sic, should have been obvious] that the Creation myths are meant to teach lessons about man's relationship with GOD, GOD's relationship with what is created, why snakes don't have legs, why women suffer during childbirth, why we have a seven day week with a day off and why man has to till the soil and work for a living."
I am surprised that you consider GOD's relationsip with man and man's relationship with GOD to be trite and boring.
The preconceived notion is that it's not God's word, so therefore you don't have to take any pains to understand what He meant, you are free to believe it means something as boringly trite as you apparently believe.
I don't know where you got that idea. Perhaps you can point out where I began with a preconceived notion.
In fact, it is just the opposite. My position, and it is one held by many if not most Christian Churches, was derived from long study of the Bible and of the record GOD actually left us, the world we live in.
Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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