Volker.Doormann

Next to the historic method on the bible in theology one can try to understand the stories of the bible by interpreting the symbols in that stories. I have shown an example, titled 'Tragedy of religions' some days ago in the GRD forum. This text is also now available on URL doormann.tripod.com/pass1.htm. It is one example. There are many symbols behind all the stories of the OT and NT. The twelve sons/houses of IsraEl are related to the twelve astrological houses, and the plot of the tribes aligned to the directions of the sky in four groups of three cluster may show that. The twelve sons of Jacob have Hebrew names containing a special human character, familiar to the common understanding of the astrological meaning of the planets today. The Genesis contains the elements of the Shiva cult of India with it's four rivers have it's source in the Mt. Kailash doormann.tripod.com/the0.htm and a lot of stuff is taken from the symbols of the myths of Sumer, in that the planets and its astrological character (Venus/Ashera/Astarte) as personified figures are dramatized about its physical and spiritual identity at the same time.

I think that it is possible to have more insight in that corrupt material, using the method of symbols, as the historic method and that might show, that all secular/social claims from the Torah/NT about a preference are without any religious and ethical basis.

Volker