(June 21, 2015 at 9:52 pm)KUSA Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 9:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: As I said in other threads, I believe the OT stories are written allegorically and not literally.
It's kind of dangerous for a Christian to say that portions of the bible are not literal. It kind of opens the rest of it as not being literal.
Indeed, I can't imagine encouraging apostasy is an actual church policy. In the 'good old days' radical ideas like what Catholic_Lady is espousing could get someone a red hot poker shoved up their ass.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.