RE: Without citing the bible, what marks the bible as the one book with God's message?
January 3, 2013 at 10:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2013 at 10:37 pm by Whateverist.)
(January 3, 2013 at 6:11 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: @ whateverist
A person would give assention to biblical text because of the integrity therein. That's how I find it.
What is literal interpretation to you (I'm assuming that you disagree with scholarly conclusions), is misunderstanding to me.
Well part of what I mean is the young earth theory but why some Christians insist God's creation cannot include everything science is finding out about evolution and embryo development is also part of what I mean by a literalist interpretation. In the U.S. fundamentalist Christians use the bible to single out gays for discrimination owing to the way they read it. I really don't know why the bible can't be read as literature or poetry, rather than as a how-to-please-god manual. For that matter, I don't see why all the holy books can't be studied interchangeably. Do we really think God was only interested in the people living in Israel? Has that changed? Who is to say God, correctly understood, hasn't been behind all the holy books?
