Literalism and Autism

[EgoDeath]

yes, i indicated it comes as easy to me as it does every day language. I indicated a variety of reasons for this, even wrote out a list of rules i use. And even tried to dig down further for you, answering questions about specific examples.

I don't know if it's easy for you. Nor do I know how you distinguish them. Nor do i know why you don't want to answer the question.

But, wait a minute, I thought you claimed in another thread that interpreting the Bible was supposed to be hard? That god wanted you to work to understand how to be a Christian? Which one is it?

Don't go make me find the post.
 

Nothing of the sort.

So, why create this thread? Once again, what does autism have to do with scriptural literalism? And why did you make a thread about it? Are you not suggesting there's a connection, what exactly are you doing?

No one has. They just seem puzzled by theist who openly admit to understanding some parts of the Bible as literal and other parts as not, as to how the make those distinctions.

I don't think anyone's puzzled, we're simply trying to understand your point of view, specifically.

Every answer and criteria, I've given seem to be unsatifilatory to them, and I'm not sure how to make sense of that? My inclination is to think is that they're prone to systemizing ways of thinking. This phenomena is observed among people on the spectrum, but need not be exclusive to those on the spectrum, but I'm just exploring the question, not arguing for a position.

So you are making a connection between Biblical literalism and people on the spectrum? Though I thought you said just above you were doing nothing of the sort?

At the same time folks like yourself, seem to suggest that you do recognize some parts of the Bible are not literal. Yet, you don't want to answer as to how you distinguish the literal from non-literal parts? Perhaps you take passages where Jesus refers to himself as a lamb, to be non-literal? If so why do you take that to be non-literal, but not passages about a tree, with a fruit of "knowledge of good and evil"?

This thread isn't about how I interpret the Bible, is it? I'm asking you about autism and Biblical literalism. You made the thread. Answer the questions.

You're contradicting yourself so much. You seem like a confused person.