(December 19, 2015 at 1:05 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(December 19, 2015 at 12:56 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Could you reiterate for the purpose of thread continuity? I wouldn't want it thought I was putting words into your mouth. You should know my feelings about clarity of positions and definitions.
Yeah, sure.
My post about things changing over the course of several centuries was actually aimed at Min's comment about Galileo... it was not aimed at you.
Obviously, the words in the bible do not change. Our interpretation of certain aspects of it though, does change. A lot of it, especially the OT, is written in poetry, allegory, metaphor, etc. So it is not taken completely literally by the vast majority of modern day Christians.
Yeah, that's the point; religion can change. Creeds can change; everything can change! There is nothing that can not be, at some point, be changed! It's just a bunch of silly putty, morphing itself from one generation to the next. In other words, religion and religious belief are memes. But, it appears that you do not know much about the Catholic faith, at least historically:
Quote:2125 Question V: Whether all and everything, namely, words and phrases which occur in the aforementioned chapters, are always and necessarily to be accepted in a special sense, so that there may be no deviation from this, even when the expressions themselves manifestly appear to have been taken improperly, or metaphorically or anthropomorphically, and either reason prohibits holding the proper sense, or necessity forces its abandonment?--Reply: In the negative.
