AspiringSoul
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@Lisa Gensis is a book that contains far too many scientific inacurracies and so there are many people who became athiest on account of the first few chapters of Genesis.
However people do not understand that the mythos of scripture is the part of scripture that motivated/instills faith in people and often through mythological/allegorical type stories.
The Jewish people tried to interpret the book via hellenistic science 2000 years ago because by then the Torah was scientifically not accurate.
The jewish rabbis explained the wisdom of the Torah the same way I am doing.
In the Quran, Allah tells us He revealed the 'book and the wisdom' to the prophets ie it isn't merely about the words in scripture but their true purpose.
If you went back in time and were supposed to lead the wandering Israelites, would you start giving them modern scientific concepts? do you think it would do their faith any good if you told them about the nature of the universe through modern understanding?
They believed the earth was the centre of the universe and God was just above.
Lisa, seriously how the hell can you NOT get this about scripture yet? The greeks understand and defind the 2 ways of thinking as logos and mythos long ago, logos also means logic ie it relates to the logic/theoretical truth and mythos deals with the mystical truths. Ie one connects with the Transcendence of God and the other with His immanence.
The 'personal God' is from His immanence but that's also connected with the collective thoughtforms and Yahweh..God speaking from the burning bush, God appearing above the mount etc.
Truth is both objective and subjective.
A lot of what's written in scripture is allegorical and not literal and by now you should be able to grasp that. The reason you don't is actually because you somehow think accepting something as allegorical means it isn't 'true'.
However people do not understand that the mythos of scripture is the part of scripture that motivated/instills faith in people and often through mythological/allegorical type stories.
The Jewish people tried to interpret the book via hellenistic science 2000 years ago because by then the Torah was scientifically not accurate.
The jewish rabbis explained the wisdom of the Torah the same way I am doing.
In the Quran, Allah tells us He revealed the 'book and the wisdom' to the prophets ie it isn't merely about the words in scripture but their true purpose.
If you went back in time and were supposed to lead the wandering Israelites, would you start giving them modern scientific concepts? do you think it would do their faith any good if you told them about the nature of the universe through modern understanding?
They believed the earth was the centre of the universe and God was just above.
Lisa, seriously how the hell can you NOT get this about scripture yet? The greeks understand and defind the 2 ways of thinking as logos and mythos long ago, logos also means logic ie it relates to the logic/theoretical truth and mythos deals with the mystical truths. Ie one connects with the Transcendence of God and the other with His immanence.
The 'personal God' is from His immanence but that's also connected with the collective thoughtforms and Yahweh..God speaking from the burning bush, God appearing above the mount etc.
Truth is both objective and subjective.
A lot of what's written in scripture is allegorical and not literal and by now you should be able to grasp that. The reason you don't is actually because you somehow think accepting something as allegorical means it isn't 'true'.