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A&Q (Answers & Questions): Independent personal comparative view of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church with the purpose of provoking thought and understanding.

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This is a companion microblog for Unificationism: a critique & counterproposal https://t.co/hylprpT9DO

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"The result is a quiet literary and theological tension that fits the larger pattern of ambiguities in these chapters: unity and multiplicity, presence and absence, one human reality that can be addressed as singular or plural depending on the moment."

https://t.co/HNHtwJQK7i

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"Christianity and Judaism employ the concept of paradox synonymously with 'ambiguity'."

https://t.co/yNPvl7ZSqV via @Wikipedia

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Jerry Landers: You're here? In my bathroom?
God: Come take a look.
Jerry Landers: I can't. I'm naked.
God: You think I don't know what you got?

https://t.co/7ikKMgz28t via @IMDb

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"These features—wordplay and absurdity that can amuse, ironies that expose human pretension, and ambiguities that invite reflection—help the opening chapters of Genesis function as more than a simple origin story."

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[the serpent, to God]
"FYI, the threats aren't working. You know, like with the other fruit, now they're just going to want it even more."

https://t.co/nwP4gYi0Fc

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He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

https://t.co/m6XgYLSbG9 via @biblegateway

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"Was God being ironic in commanding Eve not to eat fruit from the tree of wisdom?...many stories in the Hebrew Scriptures may be ironically intended."

https://t.co/EXKisVgdQG @iupress

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"...(Genesis 3:19)...The 'fall' of the title is not only autumn then but the fall of humankind, which is the spring of its sorrow. Spring and fall are now neither opposites nor just closely linked; they become identical."

https://t.co/F0PeoHY0Eb @routledgebooks

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"If the high-hanging apple on the tree imposes authorial control through prohibition, Dickinson suggests a counter-narrative in the twin movements of errancy and desire."

https://t.co/w53k5HQekl @OxUniPress

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[God, slapping the dust off His hands]
"There, that oughta give 'em somethin' to do, and keep 'em out of trouble."

https://t.co/nwP4gYi0Fc

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He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

https://t.co/m6XgYLSbG9 via @biblegateway

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He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

https://t.co/m6XgYLSbG9 via @biblegateway

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[the serpent, to the man]
"You can't have your forbidden fruit and eat it too."

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[the serpent, to the man]
"Supposin' you could reach it, then what?"

https://t.co/vNeyIehG3C

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Question: "Heaven" is in the desire for "Heaven" itself?

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The Apple on the Tree —
Provided it do hopeless hang —
That “Heaven” is — to Me!

https://t.co/w53k5HQekl @OxUniPress

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The Apple on the Tree —
Provided it do hopeless hang —
That “Heaven” is — to Me!

https://t.co/w53k5HQekl @OxUniPress

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[the serpent, to the man]
"Supposin' you could reach it, then what?"

https://t.co/vNeyIehG3C

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Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

https://t.co/U0OTchnOgI via @biblegateway