(November 24, 2013 at 1:01 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(November 23, 2013 at 2:34 pm)Brakeman Wrote: So your beef from the fundamentalists is they don't claim to hold a super duper decoder ring that makes excuses for the illogical points of their story?No excuses, understanding. Things that appear on first blush to be illogical make sense when considered more deeply. It is like this: you walk into a dark room and you think there is a snake in the corner. When you turn on the light you see that it was a coiled rope. If you let in the light of God's truth it will enlighten your understanding of the text.
OK so you say that the differences between you and the other christian literalists, A.K.A. Fundamentalists, is that they cannot see the correct meaning of the verses that god had a monk write. But with your special god light, you can see the literal verses in a non-literal way, so that the contradictions and incongruities melt away.
So why didn't god have his "god light" that you use built into the scriptures? Why would a non-evil god make it anything other than perfectly plain and clear? If he wanted only a select few to understand it, why did he make it available to the others so that they would cause so much damage by misunderstanding it?
What would we think if a father tortured and abused his little children if they misunderstood his written rules given to them via another neighborhood kid that wrote then with easy to confuse allegory?
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