RE: Snake Salvation
January 25, 2015 at 10:11 am
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2015 at 10:23 am by jesus_wept.)
(January 25, 2015 at 9:01 am)Tonus Wrote:(January 25, 2015 at 5:49 am)jesus_wept Wrote: I quite admire these people because they at least have the faith to stand by their beliefs.I suppose, but you're talking about a book that is very open to interpretation and for which there is a reasonable case to be made that Paul wasn't telling them to go jumping off of metaphorical cliffs so that god could hand them wings. It might even be taken as an analogy, Paul telling them not to fear circumstances that might seem deadly because god was on their side.
It could still run into some issues, notably the problem of what to think when bad things happen to good people, but once you've started down the personal interpretation road, lots of things become possible.
To be fair I did say I thought they were insane before you quote mined me. I'm not endorsing them, I'm just saying that I find them more admirable than the typical keyboard warrior or cafeteria Christian you come across, or even a pope sitting behind his bulletproof glass.
And I think the snake verses can be found in Mark and Luke btw, not anything written by Paul but I could be wrong. edit: I was wrong, they're in Mark, Luke and Paul. I really should google things I'm not sure about before posting on the internet.
