RE: questions for a christian
January 13, 2017 at 2:12 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2017 at 2:15 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(January 12, 2017 at 10:47 pm)lighthouse Wrote:(January 12, 2017 at 10:43 pm)Whateverist Wrote: I've got one for you. When you say you "have found it (the truth)", what exactly do you mean? Which truth do you think is the truth?
Oh juicey.
So basically the truth is the word. The Christian Bible. The bible actually contains a lot of really really awesome understandings and advice on how to live.
I think what Whateverist means is that when you state simply that the Word is the Truth that statement entails far more than the canonical Bible serving as a resource for various types of knowledge, like an historical record, collection of scientific facts, or psychological insights. Personally, I think a literal reading of the Biblical text (like the one you seem to advocate) is a bad hermeneutic.
It might help you to reflect on the words of Jesus when he says "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life" or when St. John says of Him, "In the beginning was the Word..." Trying to understand what those kinds of verses mean is far more interesting than trying to shoehorn the findings of modern science into an ancient text.
