(December 19, 2011 at 7:37 am)Barre Wrote:(December 7, 2011 at 7:43 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Whereas you (Barre) seem only too willing to study something that you appear to regard as true - and that's the part you have to establish first before you go running off into the sunset.
What do you mean that I am only too willing to study something that I appear to regard as true. What do you think I am I taking to be true?
Not at all. There is much talk about the Gospels being fiction. Actually, this is a point to be discussed. Competent interpretation involves the classification of a text's literary genre within its own historical contexts. One looks to find text that share the same literary traits which together form a type or genre.