"Good" & "Bad" Christians?

[Acrobat]

And your theory that Early Christians were these mild-mannered moderates who took an allegorical interpretation of the Bible is not supported by history.

Yea it is, people in the ancient world, including historians didn’t even view history the way we moderns view history.

They didn’t even view the purpose of historical accounts were to pass on literal chronological accounts of historical figures, but served to convey lessons and meanings, for the purpose of learning how things ought to be.

The reason why people in our age place such a high value on literalism is the result of the scientific age, that elevated this idea. But this is rather foreign to the ancient world, or at least not as nearly important.

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I'm not doing this with you guys anymore. You keep dancing around the point and trying to get into the weeds and I'm not falling for it.

Multiple major institutions have cited the decline in Biblical literalism and the rise of secularism.

Less and less people taking the Bible literally is apparently only news to you two. Or maybe it's the apologetics that are clouding your vision.

Have a good one.

Biblical literalism, is a modern phenomenon , that’s been in decline, it’s this decline that the surveys show.

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You and acrobat seem to post at the same times too. Interesting.

Yes, you caught us red handed. Me and Belaqua are the same person, but we just post back and forth between both accounts for giggles.