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[aarons_uncle]

QUODLIBET # 11
answers to annotations found in a "communal Bible"

Genesis 5



Gen. 5:1

The word "likeness" is underlined and the annotation is "metaphorical?"

I am assuming that this notation is to question how "literally" we are to suppose that the human being "looks" like God? This question could have been raised for Chapter 1:26 and 27 also. Since

Comments

[steka_07]

Why would some say that Enoch didn'y walk with God till after Methuselah was born? What would be the significance of taking it this way instead of your way? And as to the meteorite comparison: it wiped out the dinosaurs. They didn't keep living but with a shorter life expectancy. You often claim that back in the beginning of Biblical times, those who lived for nearly 1000 years would be child-bearing for half that time, but many women now live past 80, and yet they are still only able to bear children till about 40 or 50, which I think would've been about the same when they only lived till about 40 if they were lucky.

[aarons_uncle]

Those who made a big deal of Enoch walking with God AFTER the birth of Methuselah were looking for a text for father's day I think and wanted to emphasise how having a child could change your perspective and cause you to "turn to God" etc. etc. I other words they were preachers grasping at straws for a convincing text and disregarded every principle of ordinary literature and interpretation, but having latched onto it, and proclaimed it, someone else echoes it and think they have a great truth