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Originally Posted by DuffMan
Fair enough, but it would help if so much of it wasn’t so absolutely crazy. The ark, rising from the dead, moving boulders and floating to heaven, things like that.
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Well, yeah. That would also make it a lot less fun and interesting. Reading pre-scientific stories about the great flood, or apocalyptic myths borne from foreign occupation and oppression from a modern perspective will result in missing some of the best, most useful and meaningful parts. When one actually takes the time and care to enter into an ancient worldview to discover the deeper meaning of these myths she or he can actually learn things about themselves and their world.