Especially with the disclaimer at n the beginning saying how they mean to depict the stories as the bible told them..
Did they say they would go into EVERY detail as mentioned in the Bible ?.....
Especially with the disclaimer at n the beginning saying how they mean to depict the stories as the bible told them..
Did they say they would go into EVERY detail as mentioned in the Bible ?.....
No shit Charlie Chan.....you figured out that mythology isn't real, and was never intended to be,.... that its....its....its....mythology........good for you....
Well, the Bible isn't poetry or mythology, and wasn't written for the sake of entertainment......Its history as passed down by men for centuries and most likely has
seen its share of errors and injected with the writers personal views over that time....thats to be expected as it would be with recording any historical event passed down by word of mouth for generations....or translated from language to language.....as will our own history will be interpreted and questioned by those reading it 2 or 5 or 10,000 years from now.
But it will be just as 'real' and 'true', Mr. Dickbee.
If the story was about Lot and life history, they would have included minor details that you seem to think important, but its not about Lot, its a major events in the Bible,
and family friendly viewing......we didn't need to witness Lot banging his wife to show how their kids got there either.....
maybe next time.....
I don't think you have ever read the Bible. It's not a minor detail.
Again rubbish, they provided many "minor details" they just skipped the ones that made Lot look like a monster rather than a "Righteous Man". Simply during the scene where they were trying to break down the door when lot stepped outside, adding a line (wouldn't even have added any time to the flick at all) would have given a more accurate depiction of the Biblical account. However accuracy isn't what they want, a positive view is what they want.
Although they could have mentioned that later Lot's daughters got him drunk and "seduced" him... that righteous man...
The Bible doesn't have an account of Lot and his wife having sex, it does have an account of him offering his "virgin" daughters to a crowd who wanted to rape men he knew to be VIPs...
I don't think you have ever read the Bible. It's not a minor detail.
Um... You're wrong.If you double check you will find that the Bible never describes Lot as a righteous man......in fact, God says he will still destroy S&G because he couldn't find ten righteous people there.....God spares Lot as a favor to Abraham and even then his wife perished.....
really?....what is it about that detail that makes you believe it is important to an understanding of the relationship between God and the creation?......
If you double check you will find that the Bible never describes Lot as a righteous man......in fact, God says he will still destroy S&G because he couldn't find ten righteous people there.....God spares Lot as a favor to Abraham and even then his wife perished.....
Um... You're wrong.
II Peter 2:7-8
But God also rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a righteous man who was sick of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him. Yes, Lot was a righteous man who was tormented in his soul by the wickedness he saw and heard day after day.
It is important to understand what God considers "righteous".
who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)
Do you honestly believe that Genesis is a first hand and historically accurate account of the lives of Adam and Eve? It's mythology. What is Psalms if not a book of poetry?
Psalms is not the Bible, it is but a part of the whole.....a book of the Bible composed of songs, hymns, and prayers.
A first hand account...did someone claim Genesis was written by Adam or Eve or someone else alive at that time ?
The Iliad, set during the Trojan War, includes hisotrically accurate information.
Sure ....like in the literary Trojan War of the Iliad, the Olympic gods, goddesses, and demigods fight and
play important roles in human warfare. Historically accurate ?
The Trojan War itself is called "Greek mythology".....
The Bible is no more true than the Iliad or Django Unchained.
I don't think you have ever read the Bible. It's not a minor detail.
And just so people do not think I'm lying about what Lot and his family does:
Genesis 19:8
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes.
And then later:
Genesis 19:30-36
And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
Psalms is not the Bible, it is but a part of the whole.....a book of the Bible composed of songs, hymns, and prayers.
A first hand account...did someone claim Genesis was written by Adam or Eve or someone else alive at that time ?
Sure ....like in the literary Trojan War of the Iliad, the Olympic gods, goddesses, and demigods fight and
play important roles in human warfare. Historically accurate ?
The Trojan War itself is called "Greek mythology".....
You can't claim whats written in the Bible (or the Iliad) is true or factual....I stated the Bible was 'real' meaning, that it exists...thats why I choose that word.
so what you state is accurate.
No one will ever prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what parts are indeed fact and accurate as presented in the ancient writings ....
we can only pick and choose as other information becomes available.....
The writings are what they are....take 'em or leave 'em as your beliefs require....
Lying is NOT one of your traits as far as I know....
You put a lot emphasis and importance on the story of Lot's incest and banging his daughters....you obviously believe that story as its written.
Do you also believe God created the universe in 7 days....7 literal days
like the fundamentalists claim....?
Do you think Moses actually parted the seas to escape the Egyptians...?
Do you really think Moses was found floating down the Nile in a basket ?
How about Mary's 'immaculate conception'....the burning bush, etc.
If Lot's story is accurate then it follows so are all the stories....
Again rubbish, they provided many "minor details" they just skipped the ones that made Lot look like a monster rather than a "Righteous Man". Simply during the scene where they were trying to break down the door when lot stepped outside, adding a line (wouldn't even have added any time to the flick at all) would have given a more accurate depiction of the Biblical account. However accuracy isn't what they want, a positive view is what they want.
Although they could have mentioned that later Lot's daughters got him drunk and "seduced" him... that righteous man...
Mott: I bet they were all rolling their eyes and saying "Dad just watch the show!" LOL
Yeah, the bible is several different books that were collected into one religious canon. You are not telling me anything I don't already know.
You claimed the Iliad, in contrast to the Bible, was mythology. The Iliad certainly contains lots of mythology, but then so does the bible, as you acknowledge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Iliad
The Iliad exists. When did I claim the Bible does not? It's existence does not make it "true."