(October 14, 2018 at 7:41 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(October 14, 2018 at 5:49 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Let's have a Bible study for atheists.
When you get a chance, could you let us know how you'd like to proceed?
I'm pretty sure that everybody posting here knows full well that a literalist reading is dumb. Some people like to repeat that every so often.
But I suspect you know that Origen, Augustine, and Aquinas also thought that a literalist reading was untenable. Not to mention all the non-literalist Christians there are today.
Sometimes when I bring up those people I'm told that since the rank-and-file Christians at the church on the corner are literalists, then that's what we should focus on. Do you have a theme in mind?
Up to you. There's no particular theme in mind. I'm just assuming a literal reading of the text, but you go about it however you want.
