Evidence God Exists: Part II

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Do you literally believe in God though? Or is he just a metaphor?

How do you decide which bits to take literally and which bits not? Cherry-picking?

EvF

It's not really cherry picking because everything in the bible has its purpose. But the bible itself says that a lot of it is symbolic. Before Martin Luther, the bible was taught and studied symbolically. I do believe in God literally. But I believe that the bible was inspired by God, and written by man. So obviously a lot of cultural ideas made their way into the scriptures. The majority of Christians acknowledge this. I think it's fine for believers to decide, based on their individual convictions, which parts of the bible are symbolic, and which parts are more literal. That's why many different religions exist, and it's all okay. Think about it, if God meant for a lot of the bible to be symbolic, then obviously he wouldn't expect every single person to get everything in the exact same way.

Were the Gospels that spoke of Jesus symbolic or literal? How do you know?

Do you realize that to "decide, based on their individual convictions, which parts of the bible are symbolic, and which parts are more literal" is cherry picking what they WANT to believe, and has absolutely no bearing on whether those beliefs are based in truth or not?

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So 'His' book is pretty fucking ambiguous, yeah. Many many different interpretations of it. Hmmm.... most non-holy books happen to be a lot more straight forward. Funny that. But of course, if you read the Bible more literally then it's a lot less messy and people can agree a lot easier...

But whatever your mix of literalism and metaphors - it's not valid evidence for God.

EvF

The Bible is in the semi-non-fiction section of the bookstore. 8