keypurr
Well-known member
I see your post as another example of "pretzel logic" to keep you from dealing with the truth that the Bible is an inspired product of real human beings who actually lived in historical time.
Your wrong here, I do believe this but some scripture has been corrupted for many years.
Too many believers in my view are unable to take the sacred language in their own scriptures any way but literal, 20th century ways. This is alright as far as it goes but it denies the richness of our faith and the centrality of Jesus.
When the Enlightenment came, we began to think that ancient peoples ("other" peoples) told dumb, literal stories that we were now smart enough to recognize as such.
Not quite.
Those ancient people told smart, metaphorical stories that we were now dumb enough to take literally.
Good point