(March 23, 2023 at 10:20 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(March 23, 2023 at 6:26 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: I was just asking what you believed. The only piece of information you gave is that you are a christian and you also say that that does not matter. However you are here, talking to people once in a while about christianity. I don’t see what the big deal is. You don’t want to answer?
Sorry, I thought professing Christianity was sufficient answer. Perhaps an answer more relevant to this thread would be that many years back I had a visionary experience concerning the Scriptures...it's very difficult to put into words. For me the Scriptures felt alive somehow...like directly confronting the Otherness. And I think the supernatural context of the ancient Middle East lends to its depth and strangeness. Anyways, that's speaks only to my personal motivation and was not meant to be a testimony. IMHO anyone who says they understand the bible is full of shit. To me the more I learn about it the deeper and stranger and IMO more beautiful it gets. So I do think literal-minded people are missing out on quite a bit.
And I also just think applying rigorous criticism to a superficial reading of biblical text is not appropriate, kind of like nit-picking the grammar of a casual conversation. You don't have to be religious to believe that.
Yes, that is a better answer, it is a more specific answer.
You say that:
“So I do think literal-minded people are missing out on quite a bit.”
Do you believe that there was a literal Jesus, that he was magically implanted into Mary?
