Re: Genesis of the Humans

On 2025-07-01 10:20:05 +0000, Blueshirt said:

The True Doctor wrote:

On 30/06/2025 20:23, Blueshirt wrote:

 Do you spend as much energy on e-mailing the publishers of
bibles and history books pointing out it isn't actually the
"Red Sea" as you do in trying to be argumentative on Usenet?

 What difference is it going to make? They're not going to
alter their translations and I can read the bible in the
original Greek which is the oldest extant language.

 It doesn't make much of a difference to me either... I know
bibles are full of dodgy translations and embellishments.

As well as later additions and deletions by the church leaders, and whatever books that were lost and never found. Plus continuity errors due to being written by various different people writing in in Hebrew, ancient Greek, and Aramaic.
Not to mention that the entire thing is simply fictional stories anyway, no better than Aesop's Fables or Harry Potter.

You might see Usenet as a battleground - I see it as a
playground!

 You should start behaving like and adult not a school child.

 Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional.
 Life should be fun, not all serious and grumpy about
everything!!!

"I was always taught to respect my elders ... it just keeps getting harder to find any!"
"We call ourselves Snap, Crackle, and Pop. It used to be because of what we ate for breakfast as kids ... now it's because of the sound we make when we get out of bed in the morning."

YOU might be on about ancient kings that their citizens
thought were gods based on the manuscripts you've read from
centuries past, but that is not the thoughts of a lot of the
general public who follow an organised religion... or the
sort of thing that was being discussed here.

 What is being discussed here is Genesis and I am explaining
where the stories originally came from.

 I know where they come from. It's the modernisation and
adaptations tacked on to ancient history that I have the
problem with! As in, all the religious mumbo-jumbo.

All religions are mumbo-jumbo.  :-p