RE: Gallup Again - The Bible
July 10, 2022 at 5:21 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2022 at 5:23 am by Fake Messiah.)
Song of Songs was always taken as a metaphor since it was a poem just like some of Jesus' parables, for example, the prodigal son. And since Bible is such a self-contradictive mess, some parts had to be taken as a metaphor because they would negate other parts of the Bible.
But pretty much all events and people in Bible were considered historical. So to say that theologians considered everything in the Bible to be a metaphor is stupid because Christianity is based on the notion that Adam was a real person who sinned and Jesus came to redeem that he ate from a wrong tree.
But pretty much all events and people in Bible were considered historical. So to say that theologians considered everything in the Bible to be a metaphor is stupid because Christianity is based on the notion that Adam was a real person who sinned and Jesus came to redeem that he ate from a wrong tree.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
