Over the years, I have seen many arguments regarding the literalness of the Bible. On the one side, people are arguing that every detail of the bible must be taken literally in order for the Bible to the true word of God. On the other side, people are arguing that if some details of the Bible can be brought into question, the veracity of other details in the Bible could also be brought into question.
In this thread, I offer a compromise. What if the Bible is literally true and yet the details can be less than literal?
It helps to think of it this way. Every once in a while, you'd read a headline in the sports section that says something like Team A Gets Annihilated by Team B. No one actually believes there was some kind of social sanctioned mass murder. And yet, it is literally true that one team got pounced by another.
Case in point. Perhaps the same thinking should be brought to claims such as that there was a global flood that covered the highest peaks of mountains and wiped out living creature on Earth except those that survived on Noah's Ark. It could have been literally true that there was a flood that, to the people living at the time, wiped out what they knew of the world, but the details about covering the highest peaks and wiping out all but a few creatures saved on the ark could be less than literally true.
What do you think?
Over the years, I have seen many arguments regarding the literalness of the Bible. On the one side, people are arguing that every detail of the bible must be taken literally in order for the Bible to the the true word of God. On the other side, people are arguing that if some details of the Bible can be brought into question, the veracity of other details in the Bible could also be brought into question.
In this thread, I offer a compromise. What if the Bible is literally true and yet the details can be less than literal?
It helps to think of it this way. Every once in a while, you'd read a headline in the sports section that says something like Team A Gets Annihilated by Team B. You'd have to be a special kind of idiot to believe that there was some kind of social sanctioned mass murder. And yet, it is literally true that one team got pounced by another.
Case in point. You'd have to be a special person to believe that there was a global flood that covered the highest peaks of mountains and wiped out living creature on Earth except those that survived on Noah's Ark. And yet, it could have been literally true that there was a flood that, to the people living at the time, wiped out what they knew of the world.
What do you think?
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