RE: Proof that God doesn't exist
October 31, 2012 at 12:03 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2012 at 12:12 pm by FallentoReason.)
(October 31, 2012 at 11:53 am)DoubtVsFaith Wrote:(October 31, 2012 at 11:33 am)FallentoReason Wrote: If it's all allegorical, then how do we interpret the life of Jesus? What exactly was he redeeming us from?
I have no idea, but that doesn't prove that there isn't something that he's redeeming us from.
Quote:[...]by his "life" I mean that because his relatives leading up to him are all allegorical, how do we actually make sense of Jesus' ministry?If the virgin birth was allegorical then the literal existence of Jesus as god incarnate could still be possible, but by different means. I have no idea how. But it's a logical possibility in that there's no logical contradiction that shows that that can't be so.
I can see a few possibilities stemming from this:
100% allegory
No A&E means no earthly Jesus. Just revelations of him through the spirit. The problem is that we still have those verses that insist A&E were literal humans...not too sure where to go from here.
Jesus existed somehow
This is really saying something about God's properties; that he couldn't control how his word would turn out. If we have to deny all the apparent connections between the OT and NT and say Jesus was born indepenent of what the OT says, then that's just a pretty sloppy job of God willing his word into existence. This isn't very intellectually satisfying, but I guess it could be. I don't know what that even means for the theology then.
Drich Wrote:Not nessarily. For this could also mean we simply do not have a complete understanding of God word, nor the universe He created. How persumptious does one have to be to boast a conclusion with only a partial understanding? This to mee seems like a fools folly.
So I'm presomptuous while as a Christian you readily claim on a whim that you know where the universe came from? Evolution is evident. I highly doubt we've misunderstood why we have a tail bone, why snakes have pelvic bones, why our DNA is 98% to that of monkey's DNA, why whales have undeveloped hind legs etc etc. All of this would be deceptive if evolution is wrong. Therefore, through God's will, Genesis is allegorical.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle