Subj : Re: Extent of the Torah
To   : Chuck Pierson
From : Joshua Lee
Date : Tue Oct 24 2000 08:34 am

-=> Chuck Pierson wrote to Frank Masingill <=-

 CP> originally made.  I was using a specific reference of a particular
 CP> creation mythology, in this case the Genesis tale, to attempt to show
 CP> that if one believes this particular tale,

It's more than a "tale".

 CP> then in fact the mind of man
 CP> would work the same as the divine mind, since that it what it was
 CP> patterned off of.  Whether or not it is true or false doesn't concern

That's only one non-traditional interpretation of what "in the divine
likeness" means; if this was what it was understood as, then it would
indeed be primative; but this level of anthropomorphism was never used
by Jews or even to my knowledge others with reference to these passages.
One traditional interpretation is that this refers to that, like the
divine, man has free will. (With that remark, we wander back into
philosophical realms.)

                       JBL

.... What is mind? No matter! What is matter? Never mind! - Homer S.
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