From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 07:49:27 EST
In a message dated 12/15/02 11:33:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rjschn39@bellsouth.net writes:
> "As part of this process of mythologizing the Bible, the myth of the
> 'three-stories universe' as the worldview before the Enlightenment was
> forged, with the celestial bodies fixed to a solid firmament above a
> flat earth, and hell underneath. Yet the sphericity of the earth was
> known at least since Pythagoras in the sixth century BC, and not much
> later all educated persons in the ancient world and throughout medieval
>
What if instead of reflecting current 6th cent. cosmological thought, the
myth of creation in the Bible reflected ancient theological thought about the
creation?
He by whom the awesome sky and the earth was propped up and the sun who
measured out the middle realm of space - whom is the god we should worship
with the oblation? rg veda 10.121.5
When the high waters came, pregnant with the embryo that is everything,
bringing forth fire, he arose from that as the one life's breath of the gods.
Whom is the god we should worship with the oblation? rg veda 10.1221.7
rich
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