(July 15, 2015 at 12:51 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: Hmm another question, how do you know which parts of your scriptures are allegorical and which are literal?
If the genesis is allegorical, could the god mentioned within be allegorical too?
Why not? If seemingly random bits of it are just allegorical, god could just as well be allegorical, too. So maybe we can all be Christians while being atheists.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.