WATCH OUT ARBY, PROLE'S DEFINITION OF BIBLE STUDY ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK! DON'T FALL FOR THE "LET'S SEE IF MY CAMEL FITS THROUGH YOUR NEEDLE'S EYE" TRICK! SAVE YOUR BUTTCHERRY FOR ME!
All this negativity! Out of our thread the lot of you! For The Thread LORD has disposed upon me revelations of what will come to those who are set in their cynicist ways.
Edit: cubicle your in to correct?
This is a wonderful idea. Any chance we'll go on to the Quran or the Book of Mormon or even Dianetics?(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k36/SlinkyT82/inoutugh_smiley.gif)
I've actually read the majority of the Old Testament and large portions of the New Testament.
The Old Testament is okay until you get to Isiah. Easily the toughest book to slog through :/
This Bible Study group is a lot like sex for me. Alone, starting at a computer monitor, and filled with Catholic guilt.
Where are you assholes? :maf
Genesis 2.4-3.24: ToxicAdam and Eve:
This passage of the Bible contradicts the previous passage. Instead of being created after the animals, man is created before them. And instead of being created at the same time as man, woman is created some time afterwards.
God creates woman as an afterthought, as a mere 'helper' for his earlier creation - man. This is just the begging of the misogyny. God only resorts to such a lowly creation after failing to find a helper in the animals. Woman is derivate - she is made from one of man's ribs. Woman turns out to be an evil temptress - a theme continued to this very day - who ruin's man innocence. Man, of course, cannot control himself. For her crime God punishes woman by making childbirth painful and placing her under the thumb of her husband.
What did Eve do to warrant such punishment? She dared to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This tree symbolizes knowledge, and once she ate from it her blissfully ignorant life came to an end. By gaining knowledge Adam and Eve's existence became worse off. Animal House was wrong; knowledge is not good.
The passage is thus morally abhorrent because of its misogyny and its misology (hatred of reason). And who is the lowliest creature in the passage? The serpent. This crafty creature dared to express doubt; doubt in God. Of course he was right. God did not kill Adam and Eve like he said he would if they ate from the tree. The moral of the story is that you should trust a snake before you trust a god.
I was struck by the anthropocentricism in the previous passage and by the anthropomorphism in this passage. God walks around Eden, he cannot see Adam and Eve when they hide behind a tree (what happened to his omniscience?), and he feels threatened by Adam and Eve's newfound knowledge. "If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor."
It is just as naïve to insist that the phrase “in the day” means that on that very day death would occur. A little knowledge of the Hebrew idiom will relieve the tension here as well. For example, in 1 Kings 2:37 King Solomon warned a seditious Shimei, “The day you leave [Jerusalem] and cross the Kidron Valley [which is immediately outside the city walls on the east side of the city], you can be sure you will die.” Neither the 1 Kings nor the Genesis text implies immediacy of action on that very same day; instead they point to the certainty of the predicated consequence that would be set in motion by the act initiated on that day. Alternate wordings include at the time when, at that time, now when and the day [when] (see Gen. 5:1; Ex. 6:28; 10:28; 32:34) [Kaiser, et al., 1996, p. 92, emp. in orig.].http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/43
now that pd is here, i have extra incentive to read
tonight, i will page through genesis, preferably while shitting up taco bell
:'(ZOoT
I'm gonna find your sappy weakness one way or another.
"It is not good that man should be alone" - GODWhite Man will take you in. You don't even have to spare a rib, your anus will do.
:'( :'( :'(
Genesis 2.4-3.24: ToxicAdam and Eve:
This passage of the Bible contradicts the previous passage. Instead of being created after the animals, man is created before them. And instead of being created at the same time as man, woman is created some time afterwards.
God creates woman as an afterthought, as a mere 'helper' for his earlier creation - man. This is just the begging of the misogyny. God only resorts to such a lowly creation after failing to find a helper in the animals. Woman is derivate - she is made from one of man's ribs. Woman turns out to be an evil temptress - a theme continued to this very day - who ruin's man innocence. Man, of course, cannot control himself. For her crime God punishes woman by making childbirth painful and placing her under the thumb of her husband.
What did Eve do to warrant such punishment? She dared to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This tree symbolizes knowledge, and once she ate from it her blissfully ignorant life came to an end. By gaining knowledge Adam and Eve's existence became worse off. Animal House was wrong; knowledge is not good.
The passage is thus morally abhorrent because of its misogyny and its misology (hatred of reason). And who is the lowliest creature in the passage? The serpent. This crafty creature dared to express doubt; doubt in God. Of course he was right. God did not kill Adam and Eve like he said he would if they ate from the tree. The moral of the story is that you should trust a snake before you trust a god.
I was struck by the anthropocentricism in the previous passage and by the anthropomorphism in this passage. God walks around Eden, he cannot see Adam and Eve when they hide behind a tree (what happened to his omniscience?), and he feels threatened by Adam and Eve's newfound knowledge. "If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor."
you haven't even got to the juicy parts yet, like the SODOMY, the PAEDOPHILIA, the RAPE, and the EMBUGGERING OF NOAH
That's cool you guys are reading the Bible. Are you guys going to read it from cover to cover? I've been a committed Christian for about 7 years. I'm not overly sensitive about it or think I have all the answers. Enjoy. The OT has some crazy stuff.
In Genesis, God strikes down one of the descendants of the Abraham because he pulled out before ejaculating. Can't remember the chapter, though.
That's cool you guys are reading the Bible. Are you guys going to read it from cover to cover? I've been a committed Christian for about 7 years. I'm not overly sensitive about it or think I have all the answers. Enjoy. The OT has some crazy stuff.
In Genesis, God strikes down one of the descendants of the Abraham because he pulled out before ejaculating. Can't remember the chapter, though.
Onan, right? The source for the word "onanism" (since it was originally mistranslated and thought to be masturbation instead of pulling out)?
Many scholars believe that God smote Onan because he was, in a sense, refusing to pass his seed. The Hebrew God wanted his people to multiply.
This reading has been going on for a month and a half, and you're only on the second fucking book of the bible? WTF Arvie? You read like old people fuck.
ESAU I HAVE HATED