(September 28, 2009 at 1:24 am)Arcanus Wrote:(September 28, 2009 at 1:13 am)GrayAreas Wrote: How is anyone supposed to know what is supposed to be taken literally or not?
There's this thing, called a brain? Yeah, people with one tend to use it. As expressed by Galileo Galilei, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use."
Oh, you're a laugh....
The same God who couldn't supervise the coherent authorship of his own word?
The same god who, by being all knowing, was fully aware that the books would be interpreted differently by millions of people?
The same god who gave us these brains to be able to decipher the meaning of his word?
The same all knowing god who knew that the brains and logic he gave us were still not adequate to form a conclusive opinion of his word but went through with it anyway?
Sounds like a straight up genius this God fella.
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