RE: How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian?
October 4, 2016 at 8:10 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2016 at 8:22 pm by Simon Moon.)
(October 4, 2016 at 7:29 pm)Lek Wrote: So, by your definition, in order to be a christian one must believe that everything in the bible is true in a wooden literal sense?
How do you go about telling the difference between the stuff that should be take literally, and the stuff that should not?
For every thing in the Bible that you think should not be taken as literal truth, there are individual Christians and entire sects of Christians that believe it should be taken as literal. And you have nothing more to support your opinion than they have. You are both pointing at the same texts. How do I, an outsider, tell who is correct?
How do you know that you are not misinterpreting some of the things god meant to be taken literally, as something else (metaphor, parable, etc)? And vis versa?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
