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Old 11-29-2020, 09:20 AM   #53
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Default Re: Origins of Christian God- Through Cultural, Historical, Anthropology le

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Originally Posted by Boxjobox View Post
You, of course, must realize in saying this you are creating your own myth and your own god. Scripture, in the opening chapter, gives us the location of heaven, which is between the waters below the earth and the waters above the earth. If you alter this view, then you alter a lot of the narrative of the scripture which presents this scenario.. The firmament which is between the waters below and the waters above. This was not an intangible location, or something way, way out there which no one could fathom. It doesn’t appear to be in scripture as some alt-universe.
The biblical cosmology is not the same is it the modern scientific one. Conflating the biblical cosmology with the modern scientific one has resulted in much confusion.
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