Where/how do believers draw the line and why?

Because "The thread asked why believers accept certain things. Why you accept things is irrelevant." See Message 27.

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Some people believe it really happened and some don't. Since it isn't a very unusual incident, nothing miraculous about it, there's no particular reason to say it didn't.This isn't Sunday School. If you have a point about the Cain and Abel story, please make it. I'm not much inclined to waste my day trying to wring a meaningful post out of you.Don't make me lose the smilie.

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And I am not personally satisfied with that response jar.

That's fine. There is no requirement that you be satisfied with the various responses, only that folk attempt to actually answer the topic of the thread.

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fair enough.The popular belief of the story is about the relationship with God and the choices the 2 brothers made. However, the story is really about survival.

Actually it is simply part of the description of different political and geographic clans, and part of the defining of a peoples and their places and relationships.

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You're still missing the point of your own thread. Nobody cares what you think the story is "really about".Where do you think believers draw a line? Tell us what believers think. How has that story "caused the many sects within the primary faith itself"?

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That was my contention to begin with ringo....are you gonna contribute something of your own or just describe what I said?Phat was really the only person who had the response I was looking for. The point I'm trying to make is that these stories are taught to us by the immediate adults who we grew up with. They taught these stories with love and conviction, so we learned it as love and conviction. Its a euphoric state no-one ever wants to challenge. However, euophoria is a fake blanket of security.I know that Phat and other christians believe what they believe because they think it makes them better. But how does a person decide to be rational about certain things and irrational about others? Why has not a single person taken up the challenge of introspection....not a contextual one, REAL introspection?Edited by Spektical, : No reason given.

I'm asking you to support your contention.So far, you haven't shown any lines drawn by believers between the literal and the non-literal. You've just given your opinion of how certain texts "should" be interpreted.Give us an example of a text that some believers take literally and some don't, such that different sects result. Then we can get down to the "why".

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Ok...the unitarian sect and catholic one.

What about them?Where do believers draw a line that causes some of them to be unitarian and some catholic? Where are they making a distinction between literal and non-literal in the Bible?

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Do you know what unitarianism is?

I'm not going to play silly one-line games with you.I asked you for a text that supports your OP. Answer the question, or at least back up your claims in some meaningful way.

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nah ringo, you are wasting my time. Go read up what unitarianism is or stop responding to my posts. I don't need your help in articulating my point.

You have asked "Where/how do believers draw the line and why? " and at least one believer has answered you.So is there some point?Have you read Message 6?

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