How should we read the Bible?
There's something that we should read literally or is it all an allegory?
How should we read the Bible?
David Carter
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Juan Fisher
When Jesus says, "Don't be an asshole." Do that.
Adrian Howard
Choose the reading that gives you the least amount of cognitive dissonance.
Kayden Parker
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Lincoln Scott
Where does he say "don't be an asshole"?
Caleb Johnson
This.
Nathaniel Watson
All the time
Dominic Ramirez
I wish I could live in world that been this retardedly simplified
Ryder Wilson
Do you guys think every word of the Merchant of Venice is literally what Shakespeare believed? Do you think Agatha Christie really wanted to go out and kill people?
Understand that the Bible isn't a book so much as it is a library. There are many different genres in the Bible, and there's absolutely no reason we should take a work of poetry literally just because it's in the Bible.
Kayden Morgan
This seems to be what a lot of fedoras think.
When Jesus comes back you are getting thrown in the fiery pit.
Justin Carter
Just become a Christian then.
Jayden Bell
>When Jesus comes back
That's where I stopped taking you seriously
Bentley Robinson
Not an argument. You're literally just stating that some of it is just a metaphor, bro, not making a case for why it is.
Christian Rogers
We should read it like the word of God that it is.
Josiah Mitchell
Matthew 13 might help
>And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
Christ speaks in parables because while His Apostles and others understand the teachings very deeply, the disciples do not even begin to understand the mysteries, so they are revealed the mysteries through parables
>34All these things Yeshua spoke to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable.
>35This wasto fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:“IWILL OPENMY MOUTH IN PARABLES;IWILL UTTER THINGS HIDDEN SINCE THE FOUNDATION OFTHE WORLD.”
Jaxon Flores
Well, implicitly the words of a poem shouldn't be taken at face value wherever you find them, they should be understood as a collection of stylistic topoi. There's no reason to think that the Song of Solomon is literally telling people to go out and grab a woman's breasts and use them as bricks.
The argument needs to be made why you should take it literally, not why you shouldn't.
Carter Rivera
Imagine dipping the tip of your penis into boiling water.
Then imagine what that feels like over your entire body forever.
You'll be taking this seriously very soon.
In the next ten years I would guess according to prophecy.
Parker Rodriguez
Except that many parts of the bible that are at odds with science are not poetry.
Genesis is a perfect example of that picture in action. The early Christians decided the days of creation were not literal since it was at odds with Greek cosmology, but still took everything else literally, including the young earth, flood, Noah's ark, until modern science debunked them.
Eli James
Tell the christfags that.
Ian Anderson
>In the next ten years I would guess according to prophecy
As christfags have been saying since 300AD
Xavier Sanders
>but still took everything else literally, including the young earth, flood, Noah's ark
That's just incorrect. You're confusing the ancient conception of a spiritual alethia with our modern understanding of the English word 'literal'.
Read Eriugena, for starters.
Matthew Long
>it's furreal this time guise
Wasn't revelation supposed to have happened a few years ago?
At this point that fucking groundhog's got a better track record.
Luis Nguyen
No it isn't. Prescientific Christians universally believed in a young earth.
en.wikipedia.org
The Byzantine Empire and many other Christian states set their calender at the date of creation. Even as late as the 19th century French archaeologists in Egypt had to limit their chronology to appease the authorities.
Same with the flood narrative. Augustine, the champion of 'it's a le metaphor' thought the Ark was a real physical thing. He said it was measured in Egyptian cubits rather than Latin so it was big enough to hold all the animals.
Benjamin Wright
>the bible
reeeeeee
Those books should have never been sown together into a codex to create a new book out of them.
any of the books of the bible ≠ eachother