2007-09-20 23:26:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hmm..the part about Adam & Steve is definitely odd.
2007-09-20 23:31:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
How do you handle 7000 sheep, 3000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 donkeys, a wife and a house full of children, the dwellings and hired help or servants?
How rich is this bible person for his time, after year 1656 of flood, at 637 to 777 years after the flood, and 1773 to 1633 before Christ?
How did bible people as Abraham and Jacob move all the animals [ as above example ], their family and hired servants around with them along with their dwelling tents, how were these tents made and what was the furnishings that seem to make things so simple for them?
Would people today be able to exist under such circumstances?
Didn't those people have to be intelligent to live to age 175, 147 and 140 years in that way of life?
2007-09-20 23:54:44 · answer #2 · answered by jeni 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you think of the Bible as a historical record you would think it was a little odd.
But you have to remember the way we view history today is only a few hundred years old. the Bible was written in a time when historical fact, perceived wisdom, mythological influences and just plain prejudice could all be used in the same sentence and be accepted as truth.
Read Heraclitus to see how all this could be mixed together to discover a greater truth than the facts could deliver.
And so it is with the Bible.
2007-09-20 23:38:24 · answer #3 · answered by Robert S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. But I find the people who exalt the Bible over God as odd.
2007-09-20 23:36:10 · answer #4 · answered by Avatar_defender_of_the_light 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, of course. It was written in context and you have to understand the culture and other context before you can get it. So when you read it casually, a lot of it seems odd.
2007-09-20 23:33:24 · answer #5 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah... LOL! This passage and a few like it...
Duet. 25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
2007-09-20 23:33:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The part were moses lead his people to slaughter and take young girls as strange, its a bit odd.
2007-09-20 23:34:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm still learning what parts of it are supposed to mean
2007-09-20 23:37:49 · answer #8 · answered by specky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't. I understand it.
2007-09-20 23:31:37 · answer #9 · answered by firelight 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No,
2007-09-20 23:36:25 · answer #10 · answered by sxanthop 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋