(January 4, 2018 at 11:18 pm)Haipule Wrote: As far as the rest of your post: what's wrong with being literary?[sorry]
I am a literalist because allegory is asinine! That started in the church by a clown named Origen. It leads to opinions and never ending more opinions and not understanding.
As with a movie, only a young kid will bore you with a litany of the plot. Adults discuss what it means. The same goes for the bible. Regardless of your skill at translation, the decision to stick to literalism takes you out of the game where what it means is concerned. Like any other fundy, regardless of their ability at translation, you feel no need to defend your reason for reading it literally. Allegory leads to opinions? Is that the official opinion of literalists? Then you're already into opinions too - except you feel no responsibility to defend your interpretation. That's part of the problem.
