Bible Literalist Church

I don't see that at all. Maybe you could explain why you think so. Dismissing a well-formed reply with a single, barely applicable word doesn't help your case a whole lot.

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The truth of the Bible doesn't rest upon anyone's understanding of it.

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Then why are there so many violently different interpretations of all the basic truths?Mr. Pamboli's post acknowledged all sorts of facts aside from the existence of a mind. All I get from it is that you must ultimately synthesize all these inputs and formulate a decision based on them. It is not solipsism (which is irrelevant anyway) but rather a basic fact of communication that every message must be interpreted by the receiver, and Christians are nowhere near a consensus on various parts of the Bible. The disagreements have been sufficient to start wars in the past, and people are still dying over them today. So tell me how understanding doesn't matter.

You're shooting yourself in the foot here, because by so wonderfully demonstrating the fallibility of human beings, you make it even more obvious that you (just like me) cannot claim to hold absolute truth. Even if you have the book in your hand, you yourself just said that no two people agree, which sounds oddly like something I just posted this morning. It seems strange to so ardently defend your own interpretation and simultaneously deride the ability of any human to know what the truth really is.