(June 21, 2022 at 6:47 pm)Dragonset Wrote:(June 21, 2022 at 12:49 pm)Jehanne Wrote: There is no "correct" interpretation of the Bible, or, any other religious texts from Antiquity. I looked at your profile and see that you are an atheist; is that true?
Let me check . . . yep, that's what it says. Atheist. In another thread I suggested the possibility that I change that to Irreligious/Agnostic/Atheist but it's all ridiculous, isn't it. Theist, atheist, irreligious, agnostic, blithering idiot, sage of verbosity - I'm all of those things and none of them. Their just labels for the pathologically narrow minded ideologues. Designed to keep you from exploring the real truth by keeping you pigeonholed.
Of course there is a correct interpretation of the Bible, or any other religious text, or for that matter, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. If I say Gandalf the Grey is headmaster of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry and you wanted to refute that you would look to JK Rowling's Harry Potter series. If I said Dumbledore was a wizard of Middle Earth who rode a white steed named Shadowfax, a descendant of Felaróf, you would look to JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. If you want to know what the Bible says, examine the Bible.
No literary scholar or author (including, JK Rowling) would agree with you. While it is true that Hamlet is the leading character of his play's namesake, that is where objectivity ends and subjectivity begins.
As for the Genesis account, virtually all Rabbis and other Christian scholars interpreted that text to mean literal days, at least until the Enlightenment. Try as you may, the exceptions do not prove the rule.
