Can the Bible be true in an absolute sense while still remaining symbolic and allegorical?
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A literalist imagination--or lack of imagination--pervades contemporary culture. One of the more dubious successes of modern science--and of its attendant spirits technology, historiography and mathematics--is the suffusion of intellectual life with a prosaic and pedantic mindset. One may observe this feature in almost any college classroom, not only in religious studies, but within the humanities in general. Students have difficulty in thinking, feeling and expressing themselves symbolically.
I DO believe that Jesus is alive today and that He is more than a historical construct. I DON't believe in a 6000 year old earth, a global flood, or a literal Methuselah who lived 969 years. (Well, Methuselah may have been a literal person but he did not live 969 years.)
This message has been edited by Phat, 10-08-2005 01:47 PM
A youth is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He will assume control of your cities, states, and nations. He is going to take over your churches, schools, and corporations. You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they are carried out depends on him. So it might be well to pay him some attention.
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.--- Wordsworth
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