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The literalist reading of an English language Bible always seemed a bit surreal to me.
by njarboe 9y ago
The literalist reading of an English language Bible always seemed a bit surreal to me.
- disgruntledphd2 9y agoWritten by Jewish mystics, translated into Latin by Roman scholars, further translated by Scottish Protestants. What could possibly go wrong? The part that always weirds me out is right at the start, when God/Elohim/whatever says let us create them in our image, male and female he created them, which makes very little sense with a singular God.
- njarboe 9y agoI'm sure sure there are/were whole sects based on how one interprets that division. A bigger one along the same lines is the holy trinity.