RE: Truth in a story which is entirely dependent upon subjective interpretation
January 3, 2017 at 8:56 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2017 at 8:57 pm by Lek.)
(January 1, 2017 at 12:43 pm)Astonished Wrote: I seriously don't get this. To make the claim that there is any truth, let alone the 'only', and absolute, undisputed truth, and yet having thousands of denominations disagreeing on every possible opinion (and justifiably so since it contradicts itself so much), how do people answer this? I've not seen a response on youtube and I don't know if a primarily atheist forum is a good place to get an answer, but I'd sure like to know. I mean, that's just the tip of the iceberg really. What passages are metaphorical and which literal? And how would one tell the difference? It seems like an impossible mess. Is this just another situation where it's ignored or some really bottom-of-the-barrel-scraping answer is all we get?
These are my thoughts on the subject. First of all, christians don't disagree on everything in the bible, but if you take any manuscript written thousands of years ago in Hebrew or Greek, and then translate into a modern day language, you're going to have much disagreement on the meaning of parts of the writings. I don't think that the bible was written to be a manual. It was written with the purpose of leading people to Christ. All christians agree that Jesus Christ is the savior and the only way to God. There is nothing in the bible that says that all followers of Christ must have the exact same opinion of every passage in the bible. Maybe we'll all know the meaning when we get to the next life. Many older christians know more about the bible than newer ones, but they are all equal followers of Jesus. Why would God choose this way? Maybe he wants us to search, discuss and debate, which makes it much less boring.
