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He explains how questioning the traditional timeline of Adam led him to consider an allegorical interpretation of Genesis. Instead of reading Adam as a literal historical figure, he began to see the story as symbolic — possibly representing the emergence of early civilization. That way of thinking eventually led him toward Gnostic traditions, which often approached religious texts through allegory rather than literal history. Watch full episode here: https://youtu.be/Zb3aRd8_y80 #austinandmattpodcast #austinandmatt #podcastclips #podcast #gnosticisms #Genesis #Allegory #ReligiousStudies #Theology #philosophytok
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Adam is only this many years before Jesus or like 4,000 BC. And I was like, but maybe this is like an allegory. Maybe Adam represents the first civilized human. Maybe there's like some sort of allegorical thing behind all this. And I started thinking like that. And uh that's kind of how I get into narcissism too because the gnostics were very much interpreting everything allegorically.