RE: A Literal Bible. Answering questions
May 9, 2022 at 8:23 am
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2022 at 8:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I know a guy who reads the entire thing (and has read the entire thing..multiple times) and takes it all literally. Get this..he manages to do so without being a complete buffoon about it.
So that part is elective. It's not so much a requirement of a literal faith that a person cherry pick, or even deny that all evidence is aligned against their own literalist beliefs. No need to come up with alternate explanations for passages, or even reconcile them. It's all true. How? Who knows. A genuine belief in the miraculous completely evades any attempt at rational explanation - because there isn't one. The attempts to mold these myths into something rationally explicable is a product of the success of the sciences and secular humanism. Shamans, witchdoctors, and other assorted cosplayers have been yanking the fire alarm about this for a long time. In sum, an attempt to explain god by way of the natural and rational, within the context of human values - rather than the other way around.
So that part is elective. It's not so much a requirement of a literal faith that a person cherry pick, or even deny that all evidence is aligned against their own literalist beliefs. No need to come up with alternate explanations for passages, or even reconcile them. It's all true. How? Who knows. A genuine belief in the miraculous completely evades any attempt at rational explanation - because there isn't one. The attempts to mold these myths into something rationally explicable is a product of the success of the sciences and secular humanism. Shamans, witchdoctors, and other assorted cosplayers have been yanking the fire alarm about this for a long time. In sum, an attempt to explain god by way of the natural and rational, within the context of human values - rather than the other way around.
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