(February 12, 2013 at 3:28 am)catfish Wrote: People that believe in the Bible can only be convinced by the Bible... You need to find their beliefs and show them (in the Bible) how to trust themselves (their own morals)...
You gotta play by their rules to make any sense to them. Some are just gone though also...
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What I was implicitly getting at is that if the Bible isn't more or less literal in meaning, then why do you bother with it? Why is it appropriate to say that someone is haunted by demons every time they contradict themselves? You might as well replace this
![[Image: tumblr_lfb15injwV1qcg4uwo1_500.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=25.media.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_lfb15injwV1qcg4uwo1_500.jpg)
with this
![[Image: Link_vs__Ganondorf_Twilight_Princess.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=hyrulecentral.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F12%2FLink_vs__Ganondorf_Twilight_Princess.png)
and go on believing that people are haunted by Ganondorf instead of demons.
Let me ask this: why do I have to believe that the Bible is the correct allegory to describe the world and not the Legend of Zelda?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle