The Bible

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If you interpret the whole Bible literally, you're a bad Christian because you could justify evil behaviour, and scientists will laugh at you because you're probably a creationist.

If you interpret some of the Bible literally and some of it as metaphor, you're cherry-picking.

If you interpret the whole Bible as metaphor, you're not a Christian.

It seems to me like you just can't get it right with Christianity. I guess the Bible contradicts itself way too much.

The issue again here will be the word "evil". Christians will argue that anything encompassed by god's will does not represent evil. I have even heard the argument that there is no such thing as evil and that if we could see the whole of history that everything has a place within it, including what we in our "limited perception" refer to as evil, and that this is "the best of all possible worlds". I personally find this a highly objectionable answer because a god who created a world where the holocaust not only happened but was NECCESSARY, as in it had to happen, raises some serious questions about the nature of god that I have never heard satisfactorily answered.

Then there is the free will argument that has another thread here. This just side-steps the question. Once again god has created a world where "evil" was neccessary, as a component of freewill, and therefore is responsible for it.

The rest I agree with.

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