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So a few quick pointers that is very beneficial for those who have never really actually studied this, and have simply been hand fed a certain view for your entire life. For those who have never read even one, let alone dozens of books from multiple perspectives. The first thing to help is that...

This is what’s amusing with your statement. you say “ no it’s the Bible for me “. Well me too. For a fact I often feel like I’m studying the Bible mountains more than your average joe. Such as take this subject….. you think I’ve not read the Bible on this subject? Not only have I read the...

I always suggest these resources to people who are curious about alternative readings to the afterlife , other than eternal conscious torment, but instead something like conditional immortality/ annihilation. The first is a book. It’s really good. I’m addition to this book I really like the...

Has anyone else here looked into ancient cosmology and compared their understanding of the world to ours and how it could reshape a reading of genesis?

So which one?

Here is a scientific site that shows common ancestry and links it to multiple scientific papers. TimeTree :: The Timescale of Life

Yahweh made this earth for us to enjoy. We can enjoy so much. The world that we are wanted against is not the actual physical earth and all it’s beauty and challenges, but we are asked to avoid evil. Avoiding evil means one thing. Turning from sin and sin is acting unrighteously. our entire...

plus often the “corrections” we receive are not actually from the Bible, but culture and preferences. Many fill up scripture with their own preferences created by their limited culture. The biggest problem though is there seems to be many here that respond without actually reading the posts...

So which peer reviewed widely accepted scientific journal did you get this info from?

Why would it not be?

I agree this is a very simple concept. Anyone whose pick up a commentary on genesis typically is aware. Genesis 1-11 is Jewish mythology. In chapter 6 we read of a fictional race of giants. Throughout the tanakh future authors and editors hyperlinked back to these beings as symbolism to...

Capitalizing it or not does not matter. You can do it either way and it’s correct. It’s a fictional species that never existed and was used as a way to hyperlink mighty men to them symbolically.

So I noticed the OP is agnostic, not an atheist and that they were fairly active for a few years but they’ve not been active for the last few months. are they still lurking about or have they moved on? Wanted to discuss it a bit but only if they wer actually here. If not , I can just make my...

Well there are inconsistencies in the Bible. But that’s perfectly fine. The Bible never claims to be perfect. The inconsistencies are from a few things. Such as tradition seams, such as genesis 1 and 2, from things where one adds different details like 1 or 2 and then depending on how you view...

I enjoy Stranger Things. It’s a typical sci fi horror that takes place on earth. My favorite season was season four. Season four was actually heavily influenced by nightmare on elm street. Even the same actor that played Freddy is in season 4. Throughout the season you see things like nightmare...

Humans are not immortal. A human is a living soul. Restoration is a far better answer than new as in something different. It also says that heaven will come down to earth in revelation. The holy Jerusalem will come down. conditional immortality has done a lot to flesh out these subjects...

Even reading the verses it’s just not something I see in the story either. I don’t see a logical and theological way to honestly connect those dots. Genesis 1-2:3 and Genesis 2:4+ is what we call a textual seam. It’s two different traditions take on the same event. It’s not a retelling, or a...

i feel like they are pretty well linked. genesis 6:4 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of mankind, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

I think this is the biggest issue with this question. People are asking questions about part of genesis that is not meant to be read literally , as if it’s literally. The narrative of genesis 1-11 spans over a thousand years and covers several major events and people setting up the biblical...

It’s definitely one of the things many people forget now days. They try to map their modern concepts into these ancient ones. They erroneously practice concordism instead of accommodation. For example when we say earth we think it the globe. We know earth is spherical and we know of all the...