Originally Posted by outhouse

We come from the Earth by their belief, this was also a theme present in Mesopotamia, as Adamu was created from the Earth.

Jews did not place their dead in a ossuary at this time. They were buried.

You know, back in the earth :constern01:

Is it that difficult for you?




I'm not saying my translation is right. I'm just saying your not only overthinking this, but seem very confused about the scripture.




What is this?

Don't over analyze it, has a literal interpretation ever been correct? You know better then this.




Your assuming to much.

Its sort of off the deep end here bud.

Deity's don't exist, and they don't talk to people explaining biology that was only learned 2000 years later.

Deity's are created in myth and mirror the primitive people who created it.




Its one of the best epic books ever written, that you will have to deal with.


It is a epic that has beauty, poems, songs, mythology, stories, legends, fiction, allegory, metaphor and parables and more.

There was a good youtube clip I viewed once. A young girl was ripping pages out of the book, saying, dad, dad, look at all these errors where the book is factually wrong. The dad looks in her eyes and states, honey. "You don't fix the book, it fixes you".


And despite the people who would pervert it using a literal interpretation starting wars and crusades for their own purpose, it has helped countless lives and gave them a light at the end of the tunnel. For the poor and meek and oppressed it is a light, and often all they have. It is a guide for ignorant who are forced to eat dirt to quiet their bellies.

I stated in the beginning its biggest problem is those who do not interpret it correctly. Don't be one of those.




No one gave Moses anything. Moses doesn't exist. He was a literary creation.

There was never ten commandments. These laws mirror Egyptian and Mesopotamian laws that were in existence before the Israelite culture formed from displaced Semetic people that migrated from each culture.





No

After 622 BC king Josiah instituted monotheism to Yahweh but it took hundreds of years to take.

Some state polytheism lasted up until 200 BCE ish in Judaism despite the redaction of collections of literature.


That's what happens when you create another deity, but want to stay monotheistic.

Mythology and reality clash.

Originally Posted by Steve Weiss

Human bodies don't decay into earth. They putrify and break down into various compounds, and the skeleton is left behind, not dust.

Originally Posted by Steve Weiss

In reading a book entitled God (or via: amazon.co.uk) by Alexander Waugh which raises some interesting points. On the very first page of my bible is Genesis 1:26 which refers to the relationship between god and man thusly, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." How many gods are there then? Is this supposed to be an example of monotheism? What about plural Hebrew words like elohim which refer to god and the numerous names for god such as Yahweh, Adonai, El Shaddai, El, and many others? How about references to god's companion Sophia and his parents El and Asherah. Funny way to start off a monotheistic religion.

Here's another quandry. Adam and Eve were supposed to be created from dust, and man is supposed to return to dust when he dies, but we all know about the birds and the bees and that man isn't composed of dust, and neither does he "return" upon death to the dust that he never was. Most people decay after death, and after a while end up as a skeleton, not dust. So, how do people who know about skeletons believe that man becomes dust after death? Not too credible a source if that which is easily observed on a daily basis is ignored in favor of a myth.