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Topic: What is to be taken literally?
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SoulSlay
Member (Idle past 5640 days) Posts: 44 From: billy's puddle, BC Joined: 10-26-2004
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Message 1 of 81 (155228)
11-02-2004 1:52 PM
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Jesus often spoke with parables and symbols, so what of what he dais did he mean literally and what just a metaphor. He said 'if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out' and i hope he wan speaking metaphorically. God said, 'don't commit adultery, and I think he meant it literally. How do we know what is meatn to be taken literally and what isn't?
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SoulSlay
Member (Idle past 5640 days) Posts: 44 From: billy's puddle, BC Joined: 10-26-2004
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Message 4 of 81 (156211)
11-05-2004 12:56 PM
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Reply to: Message 3 by ramoss
11-03-2004 10:05 PM
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ya, but the question is: where is the line drawn of what is open to iterpretatoin and what is not? And if a verse is open to interpretation, doesn't that mean people will interpret it differently? Does god want us walking around with different values, saying they're the same?
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SoulSlay
Member (Idle past 5640 days) Posts: 44 From: billy's puddle, BC Joined: 10-26-2004
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Message 19 of 81 (157324)
11-08-2004 2:28 PM
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Alright, the theory or evolution isn't the topic here. So far i've heard people say that some things in the bible are open to interpretation, and some things are concrete. This is what i said originally. Some verses are obviously one or the other. What I'm asking is, what about the ones that are not obvious? How do we know which catagory they fall into?
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