Bible being symbolic ?
Can the bible stories be believed as factual and not symbolic ? For instance the Adam and eve story ?
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OogieBoogie · F
Of you are talking specifically old testament, many of those stores came from mich older texts from Sumer.
And the stories they communicate originate from a time when the gods arrived on earth, made man, and lived with mankind as overlords with domains .
Some of it is symbolic, but the symbolsim was as literal as possible: to depict what they understood of the gods and their powers.
In ancient Sumerian tablets they talk of an Eden and the first man Adamu and of the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge .
Some suggest that these 'tree' symbols were the best that ignorant man of the period could understand 'genetic trees' : how the gods manipulated life .
Some such as the 'Ruach' or great wind - the 'breath'/wind of God , is an example of the noise the gods flying machines made when they traveled . One would hear/feel this breath of God before he arrived with blinding light and 'raising of the earth' ( dust storm).
It was one of these gods (Enki/Ea - who incidentally was symbolically connected to the snake, [which in many ancient cultures around the world connect the snake to wisdom and knowledge]), that created mankind through experimentation, but went beyond what the other gods wanted (a slave force), and gave man intelligence .
This angered his brother (Enlil), and he banished mankind from the Eden (garden or enclosure of the gods).
He put a weapon of great destruction and blazing light before the garden to stop man coming back, (Gabriel with his sword of flame).
This was the start of the gods taking sides : some [b]for [/b] mankind, some [b]against [/b].
There are other stories like Babylon, Moses and the Flood, Cain and Abel .
Many stories that are now found in the Bible were once Sumerian in origin .
There is still division and argument to this day amongst Vatican scholars as to whether the Bible is literal or symbolic .
Some scholars believe that it is literal, and explains technologies and control over natural forces that the gods/God had, but believed to be miracles or 'magik' by early mankind .
It's all very fascinating .
And the stories they communicate originate from a time when the gods arrived on earth, made man, and lived with mankind as overlords with domains .
Some of it is symbolic, but the symbolsim was as literal as possible: to depict what they understood of the gods and their powers.
In ancient Sumerian tablets they talk of an Eden and the first man Adamu and of the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge .
Some suggest that these 'tree' symbols were the best that ignorant man of the period could understand 'genetic trees' : how the gods manipulated life .
Some such as the 'Ruach' or great wind - the 'breath'/wind of God , is an example of the noise the gods flying machines made when they traveled . One would hear/feel this breath of God before he arrived with blinding light and 'raising of the earth' ( dust storm).
It was one of these gods (Enki/Ea - who incidentally was symbolically connected to the snake, [which in many ancient cultures around the world connect the snake to wisdom and knowledge]), that created mankind through experimentation, but went beyond what the other gods wanted (a slave force), and gave man intelligence .
This angered his brother (Enlil), and he banished mankind from the Eden (garden or enclosure of the gods).
He put a weapon of great destruction and blazing light before the garden to stop man coming back, (Gabriel with his sword of flame).
This was the start of the gods taking sides : some [b]for [/b] mankind, some [b]against [/b].
There are other stories like Babylon, Moses and the Flood, Cain and Abel .
Many stories that are now found in the Bible were once Sumerian in origin .
There is still division and argument to this day amongst Vatican scholars as to whether the Bible is literal or symbolic .
Some scholars believe that it is literal, and explains technologies and control over natural forces that the gods/God had, but believed to be miracles or 'magik' by early mankind .
It's all very fascinating .
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@OogieBoogie The sole purpose of the biblical stories is to teach complete obedience and total loyalty to the Boss (God, the chief priest, the emperor, the king, the family father). Disobedience to any of them warrants the death penalty.
OogieBoogie · F
@Diotrephes oh I get how the stories have been retold to preach fear and compliance .
Enlil was the official heir to their father, so Enki was of a lower rank. Enlil was the one who wanted servitude from mankind.
Enki felt a fatherly responsibility to allow mankind such rights as knowledge and progression as a species in their own right.
You can gather which one ended up being known as Yahweh 😏.
Enlil was the official heir to their father, so Enki was of a lower rank. Enlil was the one who wanted servitude from mankind.
Enki felt a fatherly responsibility to allow mankind such rights as knowledge and progression as a species in their own right.
You can gather which one ended up being known as Yahweh 😏.