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Originally Posted by d-ray657
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Indeed, the more we learn through science and other intellectual endeavors, the better we are able to apply the greatest of the moral teaching from the Bible - "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." As we learn more about the consequences of our actions on the environment, on health, on hunger, and on other aspects of living, we can direct our actions to better serve the purposes of the Golden Rule. That use of scientific advances seems to this simple person to be a better means of fulfilling the New Covenant than condemning others because they don't comply with a series of rules developed in the harsh reality of living on this earth thousands of years ago.
Regards,
D-Ray
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Or as Rabbi Hillel put it
"That which is distasteful to you, do not do unto others, that is the whole law all the rest is commentary".
The Bible was written by men (mostly) and not fax'ed down from above. Therefore it could not have been produced until such time as mankind had developed 'writing' and some sort of alphabet. The book of Genesis is a sort of mythological view of 'Creation' and any reference to "days' needs a definition of what exactly consitutes a 'day'. The story of Adam and Eve IMHO was the first example of male chauvinism - blame it all on the woman.
