(March 23, 2013 at 3:23 pm)Esquilax Wrote: I'm sorry, is there some additional how-to guide for the bible written by the original authors pointing out where the book slips into metaphor, and when it comes back to literalism again? Did I miss that?
... the only guide you're using is what feels good to you. That's not exactly inerrant.
Or what church leaders tell you to take literally or figuratively. It might be OK nowadays to eat shellfish, for instance, but it's not cool anymore to stone gay people (unless, of course, you're this guy) or burn random women whom you think might be witches.
Our Daily Train blog at jeremystyron.com
---
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
---
---
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
---
