RE: A Literal Bible. Answering questions
May 8, 2022 at 2:00 pm
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2022 at 2:04 pm by Green Diogenes.)
(May 8, 2022 at 1:20 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(May 8, 2022 at 12:55 pm)Green Diogenes Wrote: The Literal Interpretation of the Bible says that Evolution cannot exist, because in Genesis, the vision of creation as described by Moses, uses the word 'kinds' which has the Ideological interpretation under Young Earth Creationism as "A singular unchanging form", which is of course not what it actually says. For another short example.
...? Word selection is not, at all, the anachronism between a biological account of life on earth, and a biblical one. They could have picked any word they wanted there, and it's not at all possible that any change to any one word in that huge mess of a story can salvage it with respect to biological reality.
However, if you think that could be done, I'd be very interested to see.
Ulterior motives need not be involved. Science is a tool, not an ideology. Conclusions varying around the central accepted view is normal, and I fully encourage every individual to do their own research into everything said by everyone. This is an attitude which has served me well personally.
To get to a real discussion though needs the ability to look through the ideologies that are claiming for various narratives, and see what everyone is trying to say. You seem like you're trying to understand, but I'm struggling to put together a decent response because it feels like I need to dive into everything, but I need to figure out specifically. Been a bit busy today, unexpectedly, not had much time to think yet.
The reason I'm no longer an Atheist is from a deep and prolonged personal experience. I'm not speaking about one god out of many, but the one God, who can probably more easily described by the ancient Greek concept of Nous. It took me months to even put together the sudden knowing, after 20 years of considering religions a delusion.
As for young Earth Creationists, it is about that simple. I picked one key example because I don't have infinite time, but words being given branches of meaning in other literature is the basis for the "Biblically Accurate" view, not the Bible itself. It's sophistry obscuring the truth, like all ideology.
You are correct in your criticism of religion, which is the gatekeeper, and re-interpretter of the book.
