Indeependent
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You mean use the Roman Catholic Church methodology of jumping all over the place?You take it as allegory.I believe you are missing the point. Genesis is not a fairy tale it is ancient man’s allegorical accounts of the creation of the material world by the G-d of Abraham and the recognition that man is a product of that creation.Do you think anything God created is truly of any significance in relation to God?Are you telling me that you don't believe the essence of Genesis chapters 1 and 2 isn't about G-d creating the material world and man being a product of the material world?Where does Genesis state that the material world was created y spirit?
So when I say spirit I am using that word to distinguish between a material world that was created from nothing versus a material world that was created from no thing.
Think of spiritual or spirit as "no thing" and material as "thing."
And when you think of a "no thing" think of something that you can't understand but you know it is infinitely intelligent and sentient. I choose spirit because the debate is over materialism and spiritualism. That is the heart of the question.
To God, there is no difference between the physical and the metaphysical.
The difference is only to mortal man to deal with.
I take it as a moral compass that requires intense study.
And what does your intense study tell you about the Tower of Babel? Or the fall of man?
Tell me in how many ways can Genesis 1:1 be parsed?