I understand why modern Christians want to allegorize Genesis. Allegorizing is the classical Christian strategy for cheating their way out of contradictions, all the way back to the Church Fathers.
But you can't do it with Genesis, it's too intricately linked to everything else.
Karl /
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2024-08-01 06:13:37
in reply to nevent1q…d55q
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