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09-27-09 09:46 PM |
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Originally Posted by antikristuseke
(Post 1179685)
Nowhere in the bible is the type of fruit specified, cant recall where the apple thing comes from, but thats nonsense from outside the bible.
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Well it originates from the early Church's Biblical scholars. Apples, as you're well aware I assume, are symbols in European myth of destruction and condemnation- which is exactly what happened to us according to the Bible after they ate the fruit the tree gave. Either way the type of fruit is not important in the long run. The talking snake-Satan impersonation, dustman and ribwoman, damned and cursed tree, cosmic Jewish zombie, and 6,000-year-old Earth parts remain.
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Originally Posted by antikristuseke
Then again, the bible is mostly full of nonsense with a few good ideas thrown in, like every other religious book I have read.
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Or every other thing you've ever read. The Bible's morals and ethics are almost all borrowed from that of the older Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi. Even the "eye for an eye" part is included in it! For that matter, Utnapishtim's Ark from those same people eclipses the Biblical story of Noah's Ark in age by about 1,500 years.
These religions all borrow certain aspects from the older ones while throwing a few new ones in there. They're all basically the same in having a beginning telling how the universe began, having an ending dictating what will happen to us all in death and when the end of the world comes, having an antagonist and protagonist, etc.
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Originally Posted by antikristuseke
That depends, did they do it in allah's name? I hear you get great results if you do it in allah's name, like a free buffet ticket on fridays, or a coupon for a free swanson pork potpie.
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"Allah" is just Arabic for "God". He's not really even a separate entity from the god of the Bible, either. |
