RE: Let's be biblically literary
September 3, 2019 at 10:38 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2019 at 10:41 pm by Acrobat.)
(September 3, 2019 at 8:49 pm)Fierce Wrote: Jesus only symbolically died on the cross, he only metaphorically died for your rhetorical sins, and god's hyperbole is described in his all-loving two-dimensional character.
You seem to asserting that symbolically understanding negate them as literal as well? Literalist also acknowledge the symbolic (non-historical) meaning of things like the cross, resurrection, the death of Christ.
They don’t see it as purely the acknowledgement of some historical reality that took place 2000 years ago, but symbolically representative of our condition now as well. The latter more important than the former in terms of acceptance.
(September 3, 2019 at 10:19 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Point is if there was something so important in the Bible it wouldn't be written in metaphors and poetry so that you can and must interpret it in many ways, but it would be written in a clear way, like the Constitution.
What would it be then? Some series of scientific and historic facts about reality, and some sort of law book?
