Tag: Literalism
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A Heavenly Conversation

Jesus: “Hey dad, those humans are acting up again.” God: “Which of their many shenanigans are you referring to?” Jesus: “They keep demanding that the stories their own ancestors made up as mythology and etiology, are literal factual history. And they keep sweeping away all my near-exclusive teachings on the poor, the widow, and the…
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“Jonah, For Once Would You Just Think Of The Cattle?”

Have you ever had something you could not have possibly cared less about, and then wound up eventually caring greatly about that exact thing? The God of the Bible, if the text is to be assumed as univocal, certainly seems to do this. He wipes all of humanity out in a flood, then promises not…
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Jericho? Jerino…Probably Not.

Archaeology is often like being handed a 1,000 piece puzzle and then attempting to ascertain what the picture was on that puzzle when you only have 11 pieces left of the original. It’s not easy, and any good Archaeologist will acknowledge that uncertainty. Sometimes things in Archaeology are easier though, like finding out if a…
