(July 13, 2017 at 4:48 pm)Aliza Wrote:(July 13, 2017 at 1:38 pm)Whateverist Wrote: I figured you'd agree. I wonder about our xtian friend. Do you read any of the xtian bible allegorically, Godcreated?
I don't really read the Christian bible at all except to pick it apart. I know they got the first part of their bible from us (and then screwed much of it up with poor translations), but the second part (their NT) has nothing to do with Judaism at all. I think it's a document that was written by Romans at a much later time. To that end, I think everything in the Christian bible is trash, but I'm willing to tolerate any interpretation that a Christian holds provided that it doesn't turn them into ideological fundamentalists.
But maybe you were trying to ask me if I see any of the Jewish bible as allegory? Of course I do. Our Talmud clearly states that much of it is worded in such a way that it can only be taken allegorically.
No, I wasn't asking you about reading the Jewish bible allegorically because I already know you do. I was wondering if the xtian poster, Godcreated, read any of his bible allegorically. Or perhaps he thinks it was perfectly created back then in such a way that by various flawed interpretations it came to mean in English precisely what God had in mind all along. I suppose if one is a fundamentalist, one just avoids thinking about it too hard at all.
