(June 29, 2018 at 10:54 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:(June 27, 2018 at 8:29 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: If we're talking about a one hundred percent literal reading combined with a viewpoint of complete and utter literal innerancy of the Bible, then the investigating reader will run into problems very quickly. The first contradiction is in Genesis 2. It contradicts a passage in Genesis 1, if both are read literally.
I sometimes wonder if I might have stayed a Christian after reading the Bible if I had been raised Catholic or Episcopalian instead of Pentecostal. Rigid beliefs may be more brittle.
Ironically I am more Pentecostal now than I was when I was younger. But I am learning that in some denominations, the Bible has just about taken over God. It's become an idol.