(July 10, 2022 at 4:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: All of which is perfectly true and correct, but none of which will matter to the 20%. It isn't how certain bits of the Bible are meant to be understood, but how they are understood that causes all the trouble.
Boru
Exactly! My original post was celebrating a move away from the literal and, frankly, away from any reliance on the book at all. As I had said, it's teh 20% that concern me. I mean, they built a fucking ark full of dinosaurs in Kentucky.
Besides that, if we are willing to accept that theologians, up to and including Jesus himself, were viewing biblical content as allegory - that just makes the 20% look even more bugnutty.
