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Frangible Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-29-06 01:36 AM
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18. QFT
The KJV blows for accuracy, only the right-wing nutty types think it's some infalliable word of God, it's just not a very accurate translation. Probably less so than The Message translation, heh.

I'd also guess that Genesis isn't quite as literal as some think; what I get out of that passage is just that free will can be used for good or evil. (I mean, who had the steno pad before man was created for the first part of it? And that's used as an argument against evolution?) Along those same lines, the story of Enoch may be more a parable about the transition for a hunter-gatherer to agrarian society than anything directly literal.
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