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Book Of Enoch And The Flat-earth
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I take much of Genesis as mythology that has spiritual substance with in the stories. My question is this: Are myths considered "fiction"?
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They might be, but the first historiographical question to ask would be: What did Bronze Age and Iron Age writers think they were writing when they wrote? Did they even have 'Myth' in mind as a category or writing genre? If not, what did they think they were writing, despite how we, today, would categorize their writing (such as we find in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, or, in the case of this thread, 1 Enoch, or in the case of much of the rest of the A.N.E. literature?)
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And this comment is exactly why I didn’t choose to address the requests above. What begins as hermeneutics can devolve into apologetics, particularly in non Christian areas of this site. I have sufficient objective evidence to prove that the pastoral epistles are not a forgery. But that discussion would be outside of hermeneutics.
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I do teach Bible study and remember the username Nathan Poe but not what he posted.
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Of course! I mean, as an Electrical Engineer, I have to take Omh’s Law strictly on faith without any means if empirically verifying it, right?"It is something you must take on faith. "
Yup, just like science
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I don't see as it makes much difference, anyway. Scripture, as you believe, is divinely inspired and pseudepigraphic texts were common at the time so the actual authorship is merely of scholarly interest.
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.............in my school of study, Literary Criticism and Historical Criticism are a part of the fuller field of Hermeneutics, and this is applicable to the Bible just as much as with any other literature. And here's the upshot in all of this: as a philosopher, I get to tap dance around on an interdisciplinary cloud of privilege, which means that while I can critically assess the Bible, I can also apply the critical sauce on any other mode of thought (i.e. praxis / method) that is also brought to bear upon the Bible.
One doesn't have to settle for mere "biblical defense" when one can also go on critical offense, in all directions. I'm intrepid like that and it's also one reason why I earned a degree in Philosophy rather than in Theology Proper. I don't have to be subject to the arbitrary rules and epistemological demands of any one Christian denomination ... or that of any one Critical School.
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My friend, the body of knowledge for both Literary and Historical criticism of the Bible are both huge and widely diverse. You can find works that justify opinions from one side of the spectrum to the other. The usual problem being the variety of opinions on who wrote them and when were they written. A consensus proves elusive.
Have fun with that.And here's the upshot in all of this: as a philosopher, I get to tap dance around on an interdisciplinary cloud of privilege, which means that while I can critically assess the Bible, I can also apply the critical sauce on any other mode of thought (i.e. praxis / method) that is also brought to bear upon the Bible.
One doesn't have to settle for mere "biblical defense" when one can also go on critical offense, in all directions. I'm intrepid like that and it's also one reason why I earned a degree in Philosophy rather than in Theology Proper. I don't have to be subject to the arbitrary rules and epistemological demands of any one Christian denomination ... or that of any one Critical School.
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I challenge you to go 24 hours without using metaphor, simile, or any other non-literal speech.
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You haven't been listening, which is rather odd since ......................
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Perhaps that is the way you do it. I know of at least one person on the planet who does not do it that way. Perhaps there are others. Your absolute assumption it flawed.
I come to my off repeated observation that all (probably) classification systems are artificial, created for convenience. They are often a simplification of complex characteristics inhabiting a convolute spectrum. Time spent arguing where one example fits within the system might be better spent improving the system, or ignoring it altogether.
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