(August 22, 2013 at 9:43 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The Scriptures can be read on so many levels. That's why I find them so fascinating.
Exceptions apparently apply when one reads scripture and comes away with the impression that God is the embodiment of all human evils, because even though God exhibits, to extremes, virtually every negative personality trait humans possess, if you're not making a special exception for God, you're told that you're not understanding it correctly. The message here is that reading between the lines is acceptable only when doing so leads you to conclusions which do not contradict certain basic premises which absolutely must be accepted in spite of any evidence to the contrary. It makes mockery of the idea that theology is the practice of discovering universal truth.
