Did you read the OP?? — Bartricks
It didn't appear that way to the Sumerian storyteller who originated some version of this particular creation myth.This world appears to have been created incredibly slowly. — Bartricks
The place described in Genesis is created in 6 days. — Bartricks
The place described in Genesis contains people whose average lifespan is 900 years or thereabouts. — Bartricks
Vera: oh, but it contains animals. — Bartricks
Here is where we happen to be. Not my fault - honest! Not Jesus's, either: he just got plopped down in a restless subject nation of the Roman Empire in a volatile phase of its cycle. Some hopeful malcontents took him to be their rebel leader. He wasn't; he was just another peacenik prophet. He got executed anyway. Paul and Peter posthumously repurposed him as The Messiah. Not my fault. Not Jesus's, either. Political expediency. Luck of the draw.Therefore it is here. Jesus. — Bartricks
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