Why can't so-called liberal Christians explain what the Bible actually says?

Question

Can they read a book and then explain what the book is all about? Can they read the Bible and do the same? They seem to deconstruct the Bible into something that has nothing to do with what it actually says, before they can even tell you what it actually says. Come on people at least be fair before you go off into zooland,,,,

Answer 1

Hey, c'mon... there's only so much you can do with the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of an ignorant bunch of Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders. How does one go about being 'fair' with...

*  a universe in which all that exists are the earth and heaven
*  solid 'firmmament' structure (the sky) seperating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth)
*  talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys
* shepherd staff turning into an asp
*  demons chased out of people and into pigs
*  friendly spirits
*  evil spirits
*  walking on water
*  multiplying loaves and fishes
*  food falling from the sky
* conception by a ghost
*  people raising from the dead
*  stopping the sun in its tracks
*  parting seas
*  people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky)
*  world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain
*  creating people from dust bunnies and ribs
*  magical tree of knowledge
*  god speaking from a burning bush
*  ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker

Answer 2

Okay the Bible is multi layered, the message is not. You have to read it and understand it, not just break up peices from different books of the Bible. If you don't get it then it isn't for you right? Move on and find something that speaks to you perhaps the New York Times

Answer 3

.. "for the time will come when they shall not endure sound doctrine, but AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS, they shall heap to themselves teachers , telling them what they want to hear, and they shall turn away from the truth and the truth of God shall be turned to fables." II Tim. 4

I think that says it all.
The irony is that unwittingly the actions of these fools are merely verifying the accuracy of the prophecies of Scripture>

Answer 4

I love when Christians eat their own... I just like to sit back and enjoy the carnage...

Answer 5

Conservative Christains deconstuct it to look like George Bush and his friends are prophets, which they hardly are.