Well either you take it literally or you don't. There has to be a mind to interpret it lol.
Different people make sense of it differently. It of course doesn't interpret itself. There has to be interpreters.
I know you might have just been joking (lol) but in case you thought interpreting itself would mean a literal interpretation I don't know. But even that is a interpretation by people. How couldn't it be? Its just a literal interpretation and its more consistent than cherry-picking and only being literal when you want to or 'think you should'. There has to be an interpretor things don't interpret themselves. Even the literal interpretation. Its more consistent but it still needs an interpreter lol. And if you pick and choose and cherry-pick you can't then say that the bible interprets itself when you are interpreting it yourself, for example, etc.
Even though you were probably just joking! I wanted to say some more on the matter anyway.
And also in case you misunderstood me and were thinking of the literal interpretation as being a way the bible interprets itself or something. And those who aren't total literal fundamentalists certainly (I do not think, I don't see how) can't claim that the bible interprets itself.
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Different people make sense of it differently. It of course doesn't interpret itself. There has to be interpreters.
I know you might have just been joking (lol) but in case you thought interpreting itself would mean a literal interpretation I don't know. But even that is a interpretation by people. How couldn't it be? Its just a literal interpretation and its more consistent than cherry-picking and only being literal when you want to or 'think you should'. There has to be an interpretor things don't interpret themselves. Even the literal interpretation. Its more consistent but it still needs an interpreter lol. And if you pick and choose and cherry-pick you can't then say that the bible interprets itself when you are interpreting it yourself, for example, etc.
Even though you were probably just joking! I wanted to say some more on the matter anyway.
And also in case you misunderstood me and were thinking of the literal interpretation as being a way the bible interprets itself or something. And those who aren't total literal fundamentalists certainly (I do not think, I don't see how) can't claim that the bible interprets itself.
evf
