(June 16, 2015 at 2:03 am)Rhythm Wrote: Ah...so you have a biblical decoder ring? Or, and this is a sad but much more believable contention.. might it be that what you wish to be allegory, is, to you, allegory, and what you wish to believe is factual is, to you, factual. You understand that others put different things on those two lists?
God killing kids, allegory.....eh? Vicarious redemption.....factual. When you're done cutting out all the shit that you, with your own moral sense, found to be horrid or non-factual, allegory by convenience - then we can have a talk about that last nagging bit..lol.
I don't have a biblical decoder ring. I know that Catholicism allows me to either take the OT stories literally or allegorically. As long as I believe the fundamental of it, which is basically the fact that God is responsible for all of creation (whether through evolution or not, and I do believe in evolution), that is really all that matters in regards to the OT. The more important stuff is the teachings of Christ, in the New Testament. His words and His teachings supersede any claims that may have been made in the OT. Per Catholic teaching, I can make of that whatever I wish, so long as I believe this.
There are many theologians who devoted their entire lives to studying this, and say the OT is written allegorically. I feel like their assessment is logical, and so I believe the same.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
