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Originally Posted by aico
Why is it that Egyptian gods were dogs, and now we call it God? Did someone read it backwards?
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Actually a lot of biblical writing were written in a style called a "chiasm" which was written forward and then backwards. So for example if you had verses A1 B1 C1 then the 2nd half of the chapter would be C2 B2 A2 where 2 is a variation on 1. Sometimes the 2nd variation states the same thing but with different wording, other styles it's the exact opposite but basically the same concept.