jar writes:
I think you do need to attack Biblical Literalism, but to be successful, that needs to be done from within the Christian communion.
It will not work if the attack comes from someone who does not accept the Bible as a Holy Book, and may not work even if the attacker accepts the Bible as a Holy Book , but that is IMHO the only possible way it might succeed.
Well, I'll be, I was trying to say the same elsewhere before I sratched it.
Some Christians see evolutionists as the devil incarnate. The problem is, the see other denoms in the same way.
You can get two scientists to discuss facts, it happens here all the time. There is a teaching/mentoring thing, and the person in the wrong will usually acknowledge that in the science threads when confronted with a rebuttal.
The problem with Bible study is that there are no facts. Try to argue an interpretation, and you are cast as a 'devil' just as an evolutionionist.
Yet, I agree, that the only way to beat it, is to meet it. Let people know that there is more than one view out there. Let them know that it is Christians who oppose them, as well as the 'enemy'.
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