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To: muir_redwoods
I will not be distracted from the point I am making and that you cannot refute.

LOL ... you have in no way demonstrated your point, all you have done is maintain it by the willful ignoring of what the text says. It is easier for you to imposing your presuppositions on the text, instead of letting the obvious meaning of the text speak for itself. You have inserted meaning into the text that is not there.

If you accept allegory when there are no clues in the text that allegory is intended, then you can claim allegory wherever you want to, and there remains no foundation, authority or consistency for Biblical interpretation. That allows you to dismiss any passage where you don't like the clear intent and ramifications of the written text; or in your case, to dismiss the entire Bible.

For the sake of those who may read our 'conversation' ... let me spell it out ...

My conjecture is that the Genesis creation account is historical narrative, not poetry, not allegory. There is nothing in the text that even hints at the author intending to convey allegory. YOU are imposing that view on the text by bringing presuppositions INTO the text from outside the text. The reason I asked you and others if the Ten Commandments are allegory is simple ...

Exodus 20:8-16
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
13 You shall not murder.
14 You shall not commit adultery.
15 You shall not steal.
16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

The context of the 4th commandment is a literal seven day work week, not ages of time, no allegory even hinted at in this passage. If you accept that the Ten Commandments are to be taken literally, then the text clearly implies a 6 literal day creation narrative.

There is no argument concerning what the author (Moses) intended the reader to understand here.

41 posted on 01/21/2016 8:28:02 AM PST by dartuser
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To: dartuser

I know when I’ve won the argument. You have refused to address my point which I clearly made because you cannot. You drag out irrelevant point to distract from the issue. You have lost and are too childish to admit it.


42 posted on 01/21/2016 8:33:54 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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