RE: Biblical illiteracy
December 8, 2013 at 5:00 am
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2013 at 5:01 am by Ryantology.)
What makes one 'biblically-literate'?
I don't agree with the idea that being 'biblically-literate' involves agreeing with a single word of it. There's no such thing as an objectively-correct interpretation of a book which is both fictional and vague in so many ways. To read it literally and without accepting any of it as factual is, arguably, the most correct way to read it. To read it with the assumption that any of it is factual is faulty, because so little of it has been determined to be factual, and accepting the main premise without proper justification will only lead to you accepting others with a similar lack of justification.
I don't agree with the idea that being 'biblically-literate' involves agreeing with a single word of it. There's no such thing as an objectively-correct interpretation of a book which is both fictional and vague in so many ways. To read it literally and without accepting any of it as factual is, arguably, the most correct way to read it. To read it with the assumption that any of it is factual is faulty, because so little of it has been determined to be factual, and accepting the main premise without proper justification will only lead to you accepting others with a similar lack of justification.
