The Math of Noah's Ark

[Hip-Hop-Bulls]

I don't understand what value it could have if it was never meant to be taken literally

I mean was it intended to be the word of God or not?

learning about what happened 2000+ years ago is 100% useless if you don't apply it to your life today. Same goes for knowledge in general. Just knowing something isn't power as they like to say.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

I don't understand what value it could have if it was never meant to be taken literally

I mean was it intended to be the word of God or not?

Almost all writings from the time of the bible used the same sensational imagery. Plenty of historians use the bible to place certain people or events, or more importantly the culture of the time. Even if you don't belive in Christianity you can't discount the bible's historical value.

 

[daze23]

Almost all writings from the time of the bible used the same sensational imagery. Plenty of historians use the bible to place certain people or events, or more importantly the culture of the time. Even if you don't belive in Christianity you can't discount the bible's historical value.

that seems to help my argument that it was meant to be taken literally. I mean I don't see many people advertising the bible as a mixture of history and fiction. in fact plenty of people alive today would like to do bad things to me if I were to say something like that. obviously many people think it's 'the word of God', 'divinely inspired', etc

 

[MeachTheMonster]

that seems to help my argument that it was meant to be taken literally. I mean I don't see many people advertising the bible as a mixture of history and fiction. in fact plenty of people alive today would like to do bad things to me if I were to say something like that. obviously many people think it's 'the word of God', 'divinely inspired', etc

I won't keep telling you. Go do some research and find out yourself. The big push to make the bible as an exact literal representation of events came as an opposition to Darwin and his theories.

It's not about history and fiction. If I see a solar eclipse and describe it as dark angels covering the sun, it doesn't mean the solar eclipse didn't happen.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

learning about what happened 2000+ years ago is 100% useless if you don't apply it to your life today. Same goes for knowledge in general. Just knowing something isn't power as they like to say.

it's 100% useless even if you do apply it to your life today. It's 2012.

 

[daze23]

I won't keep telling you. Go do some research and find out yourself. The big push to make the bible as an exact literal representation of events came as an opposition to Darwin and his theories.

that's the history of "Christian Fundamentalism". but that was a reaction to what they saw as a movement away from the original teachings

I mean, how does Galileo get jailed for heresy without a literal interpretation of the bible?

 

[MeachTheMonster]

that's the history of "Christian Fundamentalism". but that was a reaction to what they saw as a movement away from the original teachings

I mean, how does Galileo get jailed for heresy without a literal interpretation of the bible?

The bible's view of the heavens at the time it was written was not unique to the bible, it was what everybody thought was true. Galileo being jailed was another instance of religion resisting science.

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

Isn't Noah's arc mentioned in the Quran as well?

 

[Bud Bundy]

Nope your wrong.
Interpretation of the Bible - Theopedia, an encyclopedia of Biblical Christianity


Our calendar isn't "based" on the bible. It was reformed by Christians but it originated in ancient Greece

The Christian Calendar | Calendars

I mean the years this is 2,012 years after the birth or death of christ ( i forget which).

And your link did not disprove what i said.

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

Average animal size was about that of a housecat and no need to bring on animals who lived in seawater. Genesis 7:1-5 breaks the types of animals down between 'clean' and 'unclean' and only 7 of one type and a pair of the other. This isn't to be taken literally, but many do.​

Bullshyt, who's ass are you pulling this out of?

Dat nikka said housecats breh.

It's shyt like dat which only reinforces mah stance on being jacked out da matrix. I needed dat laff doe.

 

[Bud Bundy]

So find some info saying the bible has/is always to be taken literally.

puritans, various christian fundamentalist groups. The Pilgrams back in the day. basically any time before the science came around.

 

[daze23]

The bible's view of the heavens at the time it was written was not unique to the bible, it was what everybody thought was true. Galileo being jailed was another instance of religion resisting science.

but I'm saying, he was jailed for "heresy", not for just going against what everyone thought was true

I think it's safe to say that if his idea didn't contradict something that was written in the bible he probably wouldn't have been jailed. prosecuting people for various forms of heresy was pretty much the job of the Roman Inquisition. it wasn't just Galileo. Giordano Bruno said the sun was just a star and there were other intelligent beings in the universe, so they burned his ass at the stake

 

[daze23]

Isn't Noah's arc mentioned in the Quran as well?

you never read it?

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Here is the last thing I will post. If you guys want to keep denying evidence that is put in front of you then go ahead

Allegorical interpretations of Genesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Some Jews and Christians have long considered the creation account of Genesis as an allegory instead of as historical description, much earlier than the development of modern science. Two notable examples are Augustine of Hippo (4th century) who, on theological grounds, argued that everything in the universe was created by God in the same instant, and not in six days as a plain account of Genesis would require;[3] and the 1st century Jewish scholar Philo of Alexandria, who wrote that it would be a mistake to think that creation happened in six days or in any determinate amount of time.[4]

 

[Bud Bundy]

Here is the last thing I will post. If you guys want to keep denying evidence that is put in front of you then go ahead

Allegorical interpretations of Genesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

so two guys equal the mass majority of people now. Of course there were some who did not take the bible literally but you mean to tell me no one else did.