As Christopher Hitchens said, either all religions are true; only one of them is true (and I’d add, that counts for denominations within religions), or none of them are true. And since most believe *their* denomination is the *true* religion, we have a decent clue about the reality.
A very interesting perspective on the creation story. I appreciate the way you've blended the story literally and mythologically. Thank you for sharing your insights, Peter.
The theory of evolution is rational also if we think about our planet or even universum. We do not know, how many phases there are different processes of matter and life in our galaxy.
Adam and Eve not only did not exist in history, but nor even could possibly have existed, we know this for a number of reasons, not least because we know where the story was taken from, regarding Moses, he also never existed as a historical figure either. Almost all Christian and bible scholars accept this. On the punishment in the Eden account: God was an absolute monster for punishing two people who literally did not know right from wrong. Plus, to say the Genesis account is both literal and myth, is to completely misunderstand the literary genre it belongs to. Saying God did not intend for Adam to be whatever; this too is absurd considering that God is supposed to be omniscient all knowing, knowing the future, which discounts that as an option.
The "real" question here is why would such an intelligent & all knowing deity leave this & other outrageous stories up for debate on their literal value? If such stories as this like Job and Noah's Ark are going to be left up to individual interpretation then it opens up all the Bible text to even further scrutiny, evaluation & debate. Either one should believe this so called holy text or not, no parsing here! God should be knowing what he's doing here, right?
You are entitled to believe whatever you think best but no amount of belief ever made something a fact. You are simply offering an opinion which is not supported by the evidence. Biologically, we cannot have derived from a single pair of humans within the timescale of the bible. We should also question why your god would create Adam with DNA that so closely matched that of the primates and why we share errors in that DNA with the higher apes, not only in the code itself but in the exact multiple locations on the genes. This can only have occurred through a shared common ancestor. If we then try to make logical sense of the whole tale of Genesis 2 etc, we find so many problems that show us it simply cannot be true.
I am sorry Peter. I dont share your explanation. You appear to be injecting your own opinions of creation on your viewers but opinions need to make sense. You are confusing me. There is either a creator or not. If God is omnipotent then he did not need to use dust to create Adam. He could have wished him into existence. These biblical claims makes sense to people who are too lazy to learn and analyze existing data that refutes these made up stories. It appeals to primitive ,simple minded people.
As Christopher Hitchens said, either all religions are true; only one of them is true (and I’d add, that counts for denominations within religions), or none of them are true. And since most believe *their* denomination is the *true* religion, we have a decent clue about the reality.
A very interesting perspective on the creation story. I appreciate the way you've blended the story literally and mythologically. Thank you for sharing your insights, Peter.
Thankfully this type of thinking is declining
The theory of evolution is rational also if we think about our planet or even universum. We do not know, how many phases there are different processes of matter and life in our galaxy.
Adam and Eve not only did not exist in history, but nor even could possibly have existed, we know this for a number of reasons, not least because we know where the story was taken from, regarding Moses, he also never existed as a historical figure either. Almost all Christian and bible scholars accept this.
On the punishment in the Eden account: God was an absolute monster for punishing two people who literally did not know right from wrong. Plus, to say the Genesis account is both literal and myth, is to completely misunderstand the literary genre it belongs to. Saying God did not intend for Adam to be whatever; this too is absurd considering that God is supposed to be omniscient all knowing, knowing the future, which discounts that as an option.
Adam and Eve are about as real as a magic tree of knowledge and a talking snake.
The "real" question here is why would such an intelligent & all knowing deity leave this & other outrageous stories up for debate on their literal value? If such stories as this like Job and Noah's Ark are going to be left up to individual interpretation then it opens up all the Bible text to even further scrutiny, evaluation & debate. Either one should believe this so called holy text or not, no parsing here! God should be knowing what he's doing here, right?
and was Visu, Jupiter, Zeus myth or real... afterall they all have the same level of fact
Adam and Eve are mere characters from the Jewish/Christian/Islamic FAIRY TALE.
Please stop taking this myth seriously.
You are entitled to believe whatever you think best but no amount of belief ever made something a fact. You are simply offering an opinion which is not supported by the evidence.
Biologically, we cannot have derived from a single pair of humans within the timescale of the bible. We should also question why your god would create Adam with DNA that so closely matched that of the primates and why we share errors in that DNA with the higher apes, not only in the code itself but in the exact multiple locations on the genes. This can only have occurred through a shared common ancestor.
If we then try to make logical sense of the whole tale of Genesis 2 etc, we find so many problems that show us it simply cannot be true.
I am sorry Peter. I dont share your explanation. You appear to be injecting your own opinions of creation on your viewers but opinions need to make sense. You are confusing me. There is either a creator or not. If God is omnipotent then he did not need to use dust to create Adam. He could have wished him into existence. These biblical claims makes sense to people who are too lazy to learn and analyze existing data that refutes these made up stories. It appeals to primitive ,simple minded people.
Nonsense. It's all God's fault, and none of it is true anyway. 😂
It's all bollocks Peter. Hiw did ya get to your age without realising that😂😂
I think at that advanced age they are more likely to believe it since the end is nigh.