@Belaqua
Metaphors are like when Jesus said all that follow him will never hunger for food or be thirsty. Or when a man killing his own son for god is really a metaphor for the sacrifices we have to make in faith. But a Bible verse about how you're allowed to beat your slave, so long as they don't die for two dies after the beating... how is that a metaphor? How do Christians who don't take the Bible literally answer to that?
This is where the argument ends. There's no debate to be had here. While even early Christians may have had differing interpretations of the Bible, they, in general, took the Bible very literally. Now, Christians generally do not.
Christians have strayed from what Christianity used to be. Today's Christians are, by that logic, bad Christians.
Metaphors are like when Jesus said all that follow him will never hunger for food or be thirsty. Or when a man killing his own son for god is really a metaphor for the sacrifices we have to make in faith. But a Bible verse about how you're allowed to beat your slave, so long as they don't die for two dies after the beating... how is that a metaphor? How do Christians who don't take the Bible literally answer to that?
This is where the argument ends. There's no debate to be had here. While even early Christians may have had differing interpretations of the Bible, they, in general, took the Bible very literally. Now, Christians generally do not.
Christians have strayed from what Christianity used to be. Today's Christians are, by that logic, bad Christians.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
