Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Should religious wording be required to have a footnote identifying when it is ';just a metaphor';?

Really, there is almost no rational way to tell what you all will take literally.Should religious wording be required to have a footnote identifying when it is ';just a metaphor';?
The scriptures are not understood by rationality. But by interpretation of the Holy spirit.Should religious wording be required to have a footnote identifying when it is ';just a metaphor';?
yes, but then every thing would have it at the end in the bible, or at the end you would see a page with a big foot note saying it, as with the Pagan stories, that where once passed down orally over generations, and now has to be written to preserve them, have a first metaphor, which should be easy to see, then has the secondary, or main metaphor and that is what it means, it is not to be taken literally. any who take the bible literally is a complete moron!
Perhaps some earthly organisation of learned people with an academic theological and philosophical training to a high level, to act as a sort of 'Watchtower' for guiding the scripture studies of the rest of us...





So that's why the JWs have all that. It is a shame that their organisation seems to be made up of high-ranking JWs, rather than academic professors who have studied the various philosophical and theological texts, all of them, with an open mind.
(Mat 7:1) Judge not, that ye be not judged.





(Mat 7:2) For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.





(Mat 7:3) And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?





(Mat 7:4) Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?





(Mat 7:5) Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.





If you can't figure out that that is a metaphor, you need to get an education.
To a soul who is born again and understands the bible, this is not necessary. Here is a literal scripture that reveals this -





1 CORINTHIANS 2:14


But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.





...and this is not a metaphor.
';Just a metaphor'; by whose definition? For pity's sake, folks can't even agree on whether Jesus meant a literal eye of a needle and a literal camel or the colloquial term for one of the gates in the city walls at Jerusalem.





No. The suggestion might be valid in some cases, but in this one it is highly impractical. It's also evidence of the ';dumbing down'; of our society as a whole. Let people think for themselves so they don't lose the ability to do so.
I think the bible should carry this warning:





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There are plenty of lit. crit. books on the Bible out there that do essentially that. Of course, this presupposes that those who should read these books would do it....or that they would read.....anything critical for that matter.
I am thinking this label is far better .


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If you have a spiritual relationship with the Lord, you won't have a problem understanding the Word of God.
The problem: Christians as a whole will never be able to agree on what is or isn't ';just a metaphor.';
No, common sense tells you what to take literally and what is a metaphor.
No, it takes away the personal responsibility to think for yourself.
No! Nobody would have anything left to argue about.
But that would pissoff the literalists
i agree, the more i read the scarier it gets.



should atheist have a footnote when they explain their beliefs*





















































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Put it on the front cover.





In huge font.

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