RE: Why Christians Attack Evolution
March 19, 2014 at 12:48 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2014 at 12:49 pm by discipulus.)
(March 19, 2014 at 12:27 pm)Bittersmart Wrote:(March 19, 2014 at 12:24 pm)discipulus Wrote: That was not my suggestion.
If you could just go ahead and elaborate on what you believe the Bible is and what it means to you, that would be great.
You stated you did not know the difference between a collection of stories and a collection of different literary works comprising upwards of ten different genres.
The majority of the new testament's 27 works are letters of correspondence in which the letter writer intends to encourage and exhort his friends in the midst of hard times. To encourage them to love one another and practice virtuous living in the midst of persecution in a pagan Roman Empire. Sometimes the correspondence is person to person, most often it is from one person to a group of people. So these letters are not stories. That is my point.