Wisdom and Cheese (General)

by David Turell , Sunday, December 04, 2011, 22:13 (4545 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

I don't think there will ever be such a thing as a perfect translation, but if you get rid of all the hyped up burn in hell sin and guilt that the church has used as a means of control for the last two thousand years or so, there is room to start bridging the gap in a way that encourages mutual acceptance and understanding. For example, taking away the moral implications from the book of Genesis, it reads much more like a science treatise than a religious text.

I agree about the translation never being perfect, but does that matter, unless you consider the contents inerrant? Your other point about Genesis asd a science treatise is true. Nahmanides account of the first few seconds of creation from Genesis 1:1 reads just like the Big Bang.
(See Schroeder, "Gensis and the Big Bang", 1990)