RE: Literal and Not Literal
August 30, 2019 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2019 at 11:59 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 30, 2019 at 6:18 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(August 30, 2019 at 5:29 am)Belaqua Wrote: I am saying that they interpret the Bible in a literal way,
Nope, you are quite clear that they are wrong and even calling them stupid.
(August 30, 2019 at 5:29 am)Belaqua Wrote: and that we have good historical reasons to believe that it hasn't always been interpreted literally.
Actually quite the opposite. Start with character of Jesus himself who was literalist believed in the Flood, Jonah, six day creation. Or let's say we take the story of Adam and Eve as only as a metaphor. So, in order to impress himself, Jesus had himself tortured and executed, in vicarious punishment for a symbolic sin committed by a non-existent individual? Seems barking mad, as well as viciously unpleasant.
(August 30, 2019 at 5:29 am)Belaqua Wrote: I have never said that anyone is or is not a True Christian.
Really? Then explain me how can a group of Christians be true Christians and interpret Bible completely wrong?
If we consider what common denominator might unify all those whom Belaqua might claim to possibly be true Christians, it would appear the only characteristic required to be a true Christian is to be less moved by the risibility and grotesquery of the "Christ" than by the conviction that men could deserve no better, even though it would not be stretching it to say majority of mankind represent far less extreme specimens of megalomania, insanity and immorality than the character Jesus.
