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Question to theists: When to take the bible literally?
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RE: Question to theists: When to take the bible literally?
(November 25, 2021 at 4:48 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Terrible comparision maybe but I recently saw the movie about the CBGB club and the line where the owner listens to an underground punk band and says ..."yeah, there's something there". In other words he sensed some intangible quality in bands like the Talking Heads and and the Ramones. And the irony is that his club became an epicenter for new underground rock despite his original intention to platform country, bluegrass, and blues. That is how I as a mostly esoteric reader of Scripture feel about reading the bible...there's uncanny something there, behind the text or maybe woven into it. Hence my facination with Swedenborg, the Gnostics, and such...I am not reading for answers; but rather for the experience of particapring in the Divine. ...and no, God did not talk to a snake...that's just stupid.

When your culture has been steeping in its influence for two millennia, it's hardly surprising that it's going to ring some bells.
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RE: Question to theists: When to take the bible literally? - by Angrboda - November 25, 2021 at 5:09 pm

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