(March 14, 2018 at 3:08 pm)alpha male Wrote:(March 14, 2018 at 2:58 pm)Whateverist Wrote: I appreciate your trying but I'm not seeing how any of this explicitly constitutes a warrant from God to read the bible literally.
It doesn't. I was just giving you the verses I was referring to in my discussion with RR.
Why would you expect a statement explicitly saying that something should be read literally?
My bad. I thought you were answering my question about biblical support for reading the bible literally which immediately preceded your post.
(March 14, 2018 at 1:53 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(March 14, 2018 at 10:41 am)alpha male Wrote: The plain reading of the gospels is that he endorsed a plain reading of Genesis. That's good enough for me.
I am usually the last person who would want to know anything about bible quotes. But if there is actually a quote that directly addresses the manner in which God intended his acolytes to read the bible, I would really like to know it.
(March 14, 2018 at 2:02 pm)alpha male Wrote: Matt 19
4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Jesus notes that man was created at the beginning - not after billions of years.
Matt 24
38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Jesus refers to the flood as a historical event.
