Matt Silberstein <matts2@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
In alt.religion.christianity I read this message from Mark
Johnson <102334.12@compuserve.com>:
Matt Silberstein <matts2@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
So how about a story about a man, made from dirt, called Dirt?
From the dust of the ground? Why not Adam? the first human being.
That's the name people have always used, isn't it?
Aleph Dalad Mem, Adama, dirt or earth. You did know that, didn't
you?
Adam was made from the dust of the earth - literally. And it is also a
lesson. Scriptures is like that, preferring the lesson, to what we'd
call some sense of 'historical method'.
But Adam, is a proper name. And it can mean - Man, or mankind, or the
reddish color of the earth.
I don't know why you'd quarrel with that.
Peace.
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One mark of a deteriorating society is when its people cannot
discern truth from lies. Another is when they don't even bother
to try and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.
[Cal Thomas, 4 SEP 2000]
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