>be me
>try to rediscover faith
>undertake some amateur Biblical allegorical exegesis
>rely on the following principles, the allegorical - that Scripture is revealed and inspired, and with inspiration the original significance of the text is obscured by the flaws of the writer, which opens the room for broader interpretation; that the claim of revelation is unfalsifiable but the revealed text is consistent with logic it's better to believe than not
>The salvific, that the theme of original sin is core to Christian teaching and without a literal or allegorical cause of the Original Sin Jesus' death would be vain since there'd be nothing to redeem
>and the Xenophanic, that science has removed any room for anthropomophic or zoomorphic gods in the universe, and gods concieved from what an ancient person could percieve in his environs are very likely fake, cultural products of the time, but the Christian God always seemed pretty abstract enough that He might truly be a supreme being of the whole universe revealed to primitive people in clear terms, so this isn't a problem
>I'm willing to discard anything Biblical except the story of Eden and consequently Jesus' sacrifice which are central to the faith
>start with the genesis
>mostly consistent with the current geological creation of the earth, except the creation of the celestial bodies after the Earth and the making of birds before terrestrial life, first might just be the skies clearing up after basic proto-vegetal bacteria began to alter the atmosphere and the second might refer to reptiles, which are a precursor to birds
>fail to find anything specifically persuasive of the former except that the moon's crust could have solidified long after the Earth's
>in the interlinear Bible the birds are expressly described as flighted, something they or reptiles couldn't do before terrestrial life became dominant
>defer trying to find an explanation for this until later
>then find out the firmament was literally solid according to descriptions later in the Pentateuch
>the kikes literally thought the sky was solid like other people at the time
>Genesis is bullshit then, but according to current secular exegesis it was written separately from the Eden story, by the Jahwist source
>Pretty impossible for a literal Garden of Eden and the events therein to have transpired literally but it can be an inspired metaphor of humanity developing sentience and discerning of good and evil, which is what makes them responsible for their sin and liable to damnation; Humans only begin to civilize after the incurment of the original sin as the Bible attests; Then I took that the OS was allegorical for judgement of which only humans are possesed
>So far so good, to confirm that this story is divinely inspired I have to check for inconsistencies with my own standards in the Jahwist's writings
>Wiki says that the Jahwist portrays God as antropomorphic physically and mentally
>Analyze given examples for myself
>The "physical" proof given is just passages describing God moving in space
>How can 1 jew prophet trigger so many historical revisionists that they have to make shit up? BASED (J)!
>Psychologycal proof is the dialogue in the Garden of Eden but the inquiry of Adam's deed seems more rhetorical and an attempt to induce him to confession
>Everything is faultless so far, good prospect of me regaining faith
>awyeah.webm
>Second example was Moses bargaining with God and getting Him to relent after the Jews turned to idolatry
>nothing too glaring in it
>Keep reading the Exodus until the scene where God and Moses converse in a tent
>References to faces
>It's just abstraction bro
Then
>God literally says He has a winnie the pooh arm and backside
Give 1 reason not to rope rn, without God I only have lookism and I'm at best a 5/10