RE: Christianity is heading for a full allegorization
January 6, 2022 at 11:20 am
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2022 at 11:26 am by Anomalocaris.)
(January 5, 2022 at 10:30 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(January 5, 2022 at 8:41 pm)Jehanne Wrote: For Christians, the Bible is no longer an infallible authority; instead, it is the individual believer, denomination, etc., who decides what is literal and that which is not. In other words, Christianity has gone from being objective to subjective.
"Infallible" is the real problem here. It tends to suggest "can not be questioned"... "is perfect"... "is better than anything you might think."
I have long thought that Christianity would be much less poisonous and evil without the concept of biblical inerrancy. It's a kind of decent religion without all that. But alas....
infallible is not the problems. that salvation is needed if you know what’s good for you and there is a christ outside of which is no salvation is the problem. if you embrace that, accepting infallibility seems like just the sensibly conservative bet regardless of whether on any particular issue there is doubt.
So if christianity were to make christianity appreciably less noxious, it must renounce it’s own necessity by renouncing the necessity of christ.