(October 28, 2019 at 2:11 am)Belacqua Wrote: I understand you are willing to believe anything a priest says in a video, if you happen to agree with it.
Paul, in the New Testament, interprets Genesis allegorically. Normally Paul is thought to have some authority in Christianity.
First, he's not a priest but bishop of Oxford.
Second, Paul did interpret Genesis literally, for instance he was known of saying stuff like that he doesn't permit women to teach or to have authority over a man because Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
