where did the 7 day week come from?

[OldWiseGuy]

That's not what you said.

I don't see a contradiction.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Or he borrowed a common story from real life, such as the "sower" parable. I'm sure that farming was a real activity then. Most of his parables were instantly recognized as common events.

Was there or was there not a son that did the things the prodigal son did? Did he say the things Jesus said he said? How did Jesus know? If the story was common, why not just say 'Shaka, when the walls fell'?

 

[Tinker Grey]

Can one not draw lessons from The Great Gatsby or the Lord of the Rings?

@OldWiseGuy, I notice you haven't answered this.

How about spiritual lessons from The Scarlet Letter?

 

[Speedwell]

Are you saying that God also authors fiction, then directs spiritual principles from them?

It's entirely possible. How do you know that He did not?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

It's entirely possible. How do you know that He did not?

Not a burning question in my mind.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

@OldWiseGuy, I notice you haven't answered this.

How about spiritual lessons from The Scarlet Letter?

Is there anything uncommon about the story (I haven't read it)?

 

[Speedwell]

Not a burning question in my mind.

Nor mine, but many creationists put a great deal of stock in the notion that Genesis is 100% accurate literal history, as if God could not have written it any other way. I just wondered if there was a reason for it. Christian denominations which entertain a figurative interpretation seem to draw exactly the same basic doctrines from it as creationists.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Is there anything uncommon about the story (I haven't read it)?

Doesn't matter. Can one derive spiritual lessons from an entirely fictional story?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Nor mine, but many creationists put a great deal of stock in the notion that Genesis is 100% accurate literal history, as if God could not have written it any other way. I just wondered if there was a reason for it. Christian denominations which entertain a figurative interpretation seem to draw exactly the same basic doctrines from it as creationists.

Lots of interesting things in the Genesis account.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Doesn't matter. Can one derive spiritual lessons from an entirely fictional story?

Of course. Star Trek was a morality play.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Of course. Star Trek was a morality play.

Cool. Does that mean that you can get spiritual direction from the flood story even if the flood never happened?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Cool. Does that mean that you can get spiritual direction from the flood story even if the flood never happened?

Sure, but that's no fun. I like musing about the flood and the ark.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Sure, but that's no fun. I like musing about the flood and the ark.

Can an entirely fictional story have the same spritual lesson as a story based on a real event?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Can an entirely fictional story have the same spritual lesson as a story based on a real event?

Sure, but isn't as effective a real-life experience.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Sure, but isn't as effective a real-life experience.

Why?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Why?

Your just an observer of a story. You are a participant in real life.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Your just an observer of a story. You are a participant in real life.

But you were talking about the flood earlier. You were not a participant.

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

But you were talking about the flood earlier. You were not a participant.

Noting if he were he'd be dead according to the story.

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Moses didn't write it as a news story, but as history.

That has nothing to do with your claim that the Babylonian stories could have borrowed from Genesis.

Written record of Babylonian story dates to 2000bce. Genesis was written sometime after 950bce. Explain how the earlier written story could have borrowed from the later written story (which is what you claimed).

 

[OldWiseGuy]

But you were talking about the flood earlier. You were not a participant.

That was earlier.