What does Moses have to do with chemistry, anyway?
If you want an example of how challenging, even tricky, the Bible can be, take a familiar story near the beginning of the collection of books that make up Christianity’s holy scriptures where Satan tempts Eve with an apple.
Except the snake is not Satan. And the apple doesn’t exist.
That’s because the snake in that story has always been retold as Satan, but that’s a matter of interpretation, not the text itself. And apples are not a fruit native to the Middle East. And let’s not even begin to discuss what happens when the “mother of humanity” was tempted by a literal garden-variety reptile, instead of a supernatural entity.
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