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If Genesis is Metaphorical, what's the metaphor?

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Zhimbo
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03-06-2005 11:25 PM 		Reply to: Message 129 by Jor-el
03-06-2005 8:50 PM

Re: Uh?
When we start reducing scripture to fictionalized accounts
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History is a bunch of things that happened.
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Myth discusses fundamental truths about abstract principles.
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I think it "reduces" the scriptures to insist they're just a list of things that happened.
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