what is a literalist christian?

Answer 1

Anyone who takes every verse in the Bible absolutely literally misses the point badly.

The Bible is indeed inerrant but God has chosen to use much symbology in His revelation to man. Good hermaneutics (proper interpretation) is important but it is not rocket science. Like most literature, it is usually quite evident when symbolism is being used.

Answer 2

Literalist

Answer 3

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what is a literalist christian?

Answer 4

they take everything in the bible literally. I'm not a literalist.

Answer 5

I am! We are also called fundamentalists, and we believe the Bible is the Word of God, that it is inerrant in its original writings, and that it should be interpreted as a literal document. We should understand it exactly as it is written. That is not to mean that the Bible does not use symbolism, it is full of it, but the literal way to interpret a symbol is as a symbol.

Answer 6

Someone who thinks that both conflicting versions of Genesis happened.

Answer 7

I've understood it to mean someone who takes the Bible as literal truth.

Answer 8

Someone who mistakes their unconscious, inculcated-since-youth cultural belief systems as the divine word by interpreting the text "literally" according to what they think (or their culture tells them to think) the symbolism is and what it means, not thinking of how, in their literalism and spurning of the Humanities and inter-cultural understanding via travel and study, they are foisting their interpretation upon the text and upon others and then using God to back them up....resulting in much damage, including zero-sum intolerance for differences of opinion, xenophobia towards other cultures, latent violence towards LGBTQ community, and even a divinizing of racism in some cases, reaching its apotheosis arguably in the fascist movements of the 20th and paramilitary American militia movements of the 21st centuries. Which is to say: biblical literalism substitutes one's own taught cultural precepts for thought and then uses the Bible and God to brandish that culture as a weapon towards others, ultimately leading to violence towards marginalized "others" who are thought impure. SOURCE: social scientist John Teehan, "In the Name of God: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Ethics and Violence," Wiley-Blackwell publishers. 2010. PS: he also laments/critiques the zero-sum, culturally narcissistic nature of hardline atheists' arguments, which also tend to say, "our way or the highway" in terms of brooking no "grey area" dissent.

Answer 9

Someone who lacks the ability to think.