Showing posts with label Oral tradition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oral tradition. Show all posts

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Signs Times and Progress (part two (part one))

Abel was dead and Cain rode the white horse, but Adam was spry for a man of 130. Eve, who wasn’t much younger than her husband, had another boy; she called him Seth (Compensation). Adam lived another 800 years after that, making him 930 when he died.

I always thought that if I were an anti god guy guy I’d be jumping all over Genesis 5. Nine hundred and thirty years old…Really?

Friday, September 15, 2017

Seven Days In Reverse

Genesis 1:1 - 2:4

The Biblical seven day account of creation is an allegory, a mnemonic for a people just beginning to preserve their collective memory by way of worshiping their One Supreme God. The symbolic days represent the millions of centuries that passed before our memory was born. 

They, the people of Abraham, would tell and retell this and other stories for thousands of years, both before and after they developed the ability to write it down.

Does it astound you that the Hebrews' collective memory stretches back into everyone else's prehistory? It does me.

The Bible starts with the first day; let's call it "Sunday." I'm going to start with the seventh day, "Saturday," and work backwards. After that, you can look at the chart I made to compare the Bible to Science.