(May 18, 2014 at 11:51 am)Lek Wrote: If we all interpret the bible the same, like a rule book, you call us sheep. If we think and interpret the bible as thinking individuals that means we can't get it together, and that means it's all wrong. The truth is God wants us to follow him, but to think and decide that for ourselves.That's not why they call Christians sheep. Besides, is that how Christians operate? Interpreting the scriptures individually and coming to their own conclusions with no outside help? Because most of them claim to be guided by god using his holy spirit.
Mind you, your explanation sounds like the more reasonable one. I think it stands to reason that if Christians were being guided by god through the holy spirit, they would interpret scripture in a consistent and similar (if not identical) manner. So much so that it would be pretty easy to spot the "not True Christians™" out there. But indeed, it seems as if most Christians simply latch on to someone else's interpretation and follow along like... sheep.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
