(September 8, 2014 at 11:52 am)RobbyPants Wrote: Both of them said things to the effect of "doctrine can cause division" or "when we die, we'll find out we were all wrong about doctrine". Both encouraged people to not get hung up on issues of doctrine, and instead, to only worry about "the doctrine of Jesus Christ".Considering how open to interpretation the Bible is, one can only conclude that if you believe in it, you have to take as laid-back an approach as possible. If god had meant for people to be so hung up on getting all the details right, he'd have written a book that would be clear in any language and any time.
Imagine that after you die, you get to heaven and practically EVERYONE is there. And you're like "WTF???" And god says "yeah, it was kind of a practical joke-- as long as you weren't a total dipshit you were gonna get in." And you look off to the side and see the area where all the fundies are, and they're sitting there with their arms folded across their chests and they are FURIOUS.
"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
