Black Hydra Xc wrote:
it just means you don’t know about something.
I am also Conceited, because you really would be surprised by what I know. The one person I have had more debates, and arguments, with over the last 3 years is the Rev. He is one of the few people who knows the depth of my understanding, and interpretive abilities. But even he doesn’t know how deep the rabbit hole goes.
James
Do you realize that your twice my age?
--- The farther you question, the more they will hate you.
no but you were raised that way weren’t you... so you have believed that your entire life and it is hard to let go of something that you think you know is true...
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fuckyfuckerfuckingmcfuckfuck69 wrote:
Someone with a comment that has thought to it? Blasphemy!
When I came to Christ, it wasn’t as a Child. It was as an 11 1/2 year old who knew what he was doing. All my life I WAS taught Christianity. But I was also taught evolution in school. Peer pressure was tough on me. I didn’t know what to believe. I couldn’t be in the middle. It had to be one, or the other. Was God real? Or was He some false subjective idea? What is it that caused my existance?
I made my decision. It wasn’t because one power over-ruled the other. It was my personal choice. I am glad I made the right one. Many people out there, haven’t not quite made their choice. The fact that they don’t know what to believe is overwhelming. They commit suicide. They feel confused. They are troubled.
Make your choice today- Baal or God, Creationism or Evolution. Don’t be a maybe person, be a yes or no person.
you can believe in evolution and still be a Christian you know... you don’t have to take the bible literally all of the time... in fact it shouldn’t be taken literally all of the time...
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fuckyfuckerfuckingmcfuckfuck69 wrote:
Someone with a comment that has thought to it? Blasphemy!
Not taking the Bible literally, is like not taking God literally. Because through God’s Word to His people came the Bible. Not taking God literally, is not being a Christian.
A literal reading of the Bible misses the meaning behind the details (Hyers 1983). It is like reading Aesop’s Fables without trying to see the moral of the stories. Finding the meaning in a figurative reading requires more thought, but is thinking about the Bible a bad thing?
There are many inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the Bible that cannot be resolved without excessive pseudological contortions unless one does not take them literally. Augustine said,
It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn (Augustine 1982, 42-43).
Augustine’s warning has merit. The invalid “proofs” necessary to support antievolution, a global flood, and a young earth, and the contradictions implied by literalism have pushed people away from Christianity (Hildeman 2004; Morton n.d.).
There are several passages of the Bible itself that indicate that it should not be taken literally:
2 Corinthians 3:6 says of the new covenant, “the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."
1 Corinthians 9:9-12 says that one of the laws of Moses is figurative, not literal.
Galatians 4:24 says that the story of Abraham is an allegory.
Jesus frequently taught in parables, with the obvious intention that the lesson from the story, not the details of the story, was what was important.
There is extensive tradition in Christianity, including Catholicism and Protestantism, of accepting nonliteral interpretations (Rogerson 1992). Biblical literalism is not a requirement; it is a fashion.
Reading the Bible requires consideration of the society in which and for which it was written. The pressing issue in Israel when Genesis 1 was written was monotheism versus polytheism. Genesis 1 is written to show that different aspects of nature — light and dark, earth and sky, sun, moon, and stars, plants and animals — do not have their separate gods but all fall under one God (Hyers 1983).
Nobody reads the Bible entirely literally anyway. For example, when God says, “into your hands they [all wild animals] are delivered” (Gen. 9:2), the phrase is obviously meant metaphorically.
Even reading the Bible literally requires interpretation. For example, what does “fountains of the deep” (Prov. 8:28) mean?
--- Dogbert said the deepest thing ever.
“It is all a part of the big illusion we perpetuate upon ourselves and which is in turn perpetuated upon us. When we believe we engage the illusion, when we stop believing we shatter the illusion and ourselves in the process because we are part of it."
Anomynous_person wrote:
Not taking the Bible literally, is like not taking God literally. Because through God’s Word to His people came the Bible. Not taking God literally, is not being a Christian.
read what weasel said... you should not take everything in it so literally... there are deeper meanings behind the stories and you are supposed to be intelligent enough to catch those... not just take them all at face value...
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fuckyfuckerfuckingmcfuckfuck69 wrote:
Someone with a comment that has thought to it? Blasphemy!
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