(July 21, 2013 at 7:03 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Apo: The "literalist" we're now rejecting isn't literal at all. Literal doesn't mean bolting modern materialism onto a non materialist tradition.
No, this actually is literal. Trying to extract from the text the exact original meaning.
You, like Drich, don't have the first fucking clue what you're talking about with respect to textual interpretation and the bible. You're just painting pictures with words until you've obscured the truths you don't like and constructed the ones that you do like.