(June 6, 2012 at 10:48 pm)Drich Wrote:(June 6, 2012 at 7:31 pm)Epimethean Wrote: Right, and you are an expert on when we should think we understand the bible and when we should take it for what it is.The only time you should take a passage at face value is when the orginal text directly translates into a 'face value' reading of the text.
How do you determine which passage merits a "face value" reading? Who are you, in absence of instruction from the bible's authors, to say that parts are metaphorical?
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R Tolkien
