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Does the Bible Borrow from Other Creation Stories? – Ancient Cosmology E2

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How to Make a Paratime Switch

Learn something about the cosmologies of israel's neighbors that formed the context in which they wrote. Then see how genesis one is participating in a dialogue with those cosmologis making its own unique claims. You can love these ancient authors enough to check your cosmology at the door and learn another cultured language and cosmology. It's just using your imagination to imagine yourself into another culture. That'll be the first step, adapting to an israelite hebrew or understanding of what these words mean  and so on.

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