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Noah (our hero) performs a sacrifice after the flood
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After the flood, Noah performed a sacrifice as a gesture of thanksgiving and dedication to God. In Genesis 8:20, it is described that Noah built an altar and offered burnt offerings of clean animals and birds. This act was not a payment for sin but rather a symbolic expression of contrition, gratitude, and obedience12. God was pleased with the sacrifice and made a covenant with Noah, promising never to destroy the earth by flood again34. This event is often referred to as the Noahic Covenant3.
So it's like.. what the fuck is this.. Yahweh is doing like I don't know.. those gods of the devil worshippers where you gotta sacrifice something for it, right.. like Moloch. lol. But he's doing burnt offerings of clean animals and birds. Hey, that's nice, taking some of those creatures, obviously from the fucking ark and killing them for Yahweh. Never heard of Yahweh being into these sacrifices things like the devil worshippers.
There is very little 'level of continuity' in the bible when read literally and refusing to SEE the continuity....how sacrifice in the time of Leviticus or anyone else was a lesser understanding of old by primitive people and must be discarded and understood for the symbolic analogy it is. Until sacrifice of self is understood and accomplished, ritual is needed to assimilate.
There is no 'true UNCHANGED Church tradition except for the common source of all religion.
What book shows continuity by showing this common source?
Throw down your snake by reading this book and try to critique it.
Are you up to the challenge?
This book doesn't negate a thing. It leaves that to others.
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Who told you it's supposed to be red what you call "literally"? The Bible is a liturgical text and it's part of a tradition that instructs how it's to be interpreted. It doesn't interpret itself, neither it can be interpreted correctly outside of that tradition.
There is in the face of the Orthodox Christian Church. What is the common source of all religion, how do you have knowledge of it and what is religion for that matter? How do you classify a certain set of beliefs and traditions as religion and what's the common ground between such contradictory worldviews (like Hinduism and Christianity for example)?
I've red a lot of gnostic texts doing free interpretation of scripture. Even if I'm willing to suspend my belief and be open about it, what would convince me this take is the correct one?
Such comparative religion arguments go like this: Christian theology has a lot of similarities with ancient Greek/Roman/Egyptian/Babylonian theology therefore it is connected, influenced and borrows from those. This is called a genetic fallacy - assuming things that appear to be related to be related based on the superficial similarity. The truth is people who interpret Christianity like this don't do an internal critique because they either are not well versed in the Christian theology or because it serves them better to take things out of the proper context distorting the actual belief system and cherry pick the superficial similarities to other religions.
Comparative religion Arguments are for people who don't know what they are comparing with, to, or from without this understanding of source.
Actual comparitive religion will discover similarities leading to ultimate truths they share but don't own. I've done it my whole life. I don't suggest it lightly.
Until the true source is found, It becomes 'wise men in the dark' trying to describe an elephant.
Or as the sufic sage might say, "Like spittle from the mouths of fish on dry land."
Creation is made from Ideation first. All things.
Symbols are ideation.
To mistake the symbol for the ideation behind is 'looking at the finger pointing at the moon.'
You know what an argument between the true gnostics of every religion would sound like? Me either because there would be nothing to argue about. There would be a glorious silence instead.
Many paths, one source/destination. Many boats, one shoreline.
Once the shore is reached, one needs to get out of the boat.
See Christ calming The Storm while disciples ride it out in a boat.
Only Divine Inspiration can explain one's attempt to find the highest truths and the proof is in the pudding itself. Not its symbol.
Another proposition. What's the source of ideation? How do you have knowledge of the ultimate truth behind the interpretations and various takes? What makes universal metaphysical concepts like knowledge and truth at all possible in your worldview and where are they located?