A genuine thread for once. For context, I don't believe in God for many reasons, but I do respect religions and see the value in them. One of my biggest problems with the Christian God were all the inconsistencies in he bible. Specially when it came to genesis and the earlier books.Recently I discovered Michael Heiser's work and his interpretation of some of these "flaws" and I'm genuinely fascinated by how things make a lot more sense.A TLDR: He argues that a lot of earlier events didn't happen in the material world, but in an "unseen realm", a supernatural world with it's own entities and hierarchies, which assigned function to things before form. Almost like Plato's World of Ideas. So God first had to create light to then give it form, same for the skies and waters, land and vegetation.Maybe I'm retarded, but I'm blown away by how a simple change in how you interpret the beginning of it all kind of makes a lot of stuff just make sense.I'm still an unbeliever, but still, cool.
>>18733369>He argues that a lot of earlier events didn't happen in the material world, but in an "unseen realm"That's Christian apologetics and you shouldn't let yourself be enchanted by it. You can apply the same perspective to any interpretation of any mythology from any religion you want.Im not trying to say that there isn't any value in viewing Christianity from that lens, but rather it works just as well when directed at other spiritual philosophies. >I'm still an unbeliever, but still, cool.Being open minded is a good thing, anon!
