'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
One of the basics of hermeneutics is to use exegesis rather than eisegesis.
Ow. My brain hurts.
I mean, would a supreme being really have such a limited grasp of rhetoric?
Would a supreme being write in King James's English? (Actually, I am told there are people who believe that that is exactly what happened.)
I believe Moses dies before the end of the 5th book he is supposed to have written, so authorship is kind of iffy.
I'd like to take this opportunity to recommend Who Wrote the Bible? to anyone that's interested in that sort of thing. Friedman traces different voices, talks about what poilitical stuff at the time of recording could have influenced different verses (a lot of fascinating stuff regarding the golden calf, for example), and shows how the tabernacle could have fit inside the temple. It's interesting. Mostly about Genesis and Exodus, iirc.
Lots of debate on authorship.
And God's one of those options?
I believe Moses dies before the end of the 5th book he is supposed to have written
Well, he certainly died before the gospels, so he's off the hook there.
how do we feel about someone saying "have a blessed day"?
A lady said this to me just yesterday. I assume it was given with good intent and took it so. Blessed means a lot of things, including, "to confer prosperity or happiness upon" so how can that be bad?
There are many days when I feel blessed, sans religion.
a lot of fascinating stuff regarding the golden calf, for example
Stuff like, "Why a golden calf?"?
Stuff like, "Why a golden calf?"?
Sort of. Why the centralization of temple offerings in Judea would have benefited from a scriptural mention of the badness of golden calves, anyway.
Also, how one thread of Genesis never mentions Isaac after the sacrificial incident.
I believe Moses dies before the end of the 5th book he is supposed to have written
And, boy, the writers of Moses!fic were so pissed.
Why the centralization of temple offerings in Judea would have benefited from a scriptural mention of the badness of golden calves, anyway.
Golden calves are bad? Well, I suppose it'd be inconvenient to, say, pay for a house with one. Plus you're pretty much forced to own a truck to cart it around in.
I believe Moses dies before the end of the 5th book he is supposed to have written
Shouldn't that be whitefonted?
Shouldn't that be whitefonted?
what, the Bible hasn't aired on the West Coast yet?