Well jason you did not answer my question...nevertheless I will answer yours. Point Number three above was written, not to dismiss your belief, but as humorous way of acknowledging the fact that what is termed mythological, is for all intense and purposes a story, a fable, something that probably had its roots in some obscure fact or reality but which the narrative has become so distorted and filled with embellishment so as to make it improbable.Jason Hare wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:35 pmIt’s the dismissiveness of these statements that I find troubling. It is not the case that it either happened as you think or it was silly. “Twiddling his thumbs and dreaming up stories to fill in the blanks” is dismissive of any alternative to your way of thinking. Do you not think that’s so?Chris Watts wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:54 pm I would have thought that much of what Moses wrote in Genesis, the creation, the geneologies, Abraham etc would have been handed down to him in one of three ways OR a combination of all three:
1. By other documents
2. By word of mouth generation to generation
3. Twiddling his thumbs and dreaming up stories to fill in the blanks
I tend to use a little humour sometimes to state a reality in the belief that what I am really saying will be seen for what it is. As I did with 'Ee-Oor'!
And exactly how long must I go on defending my comments as if I started all this with offending language? You challenged me remember and I would like an answer to my question in my last post...please.
Chris watts