Can you please site Verse and Chapter?
2006-12-20 06:14:18 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
But its the word of God..Should't you take Gods instructions Literally. I mean they are supposedly the words of God.
2006-12-20 06:19:15 · update #1
It is mentioned in the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Timothy, and Thomas.... three of his original disciples... Each of these Gospels had a large number of followers and were accepted Gospels for 300 years, until a Pagan Roman Emperor intervened in 325 C.E.
Oh thats right..... I forgot.... the Christian Church burned them and almost all of their followers.
Oops
2006-12-20 06:19:08 · answer #1 · answered by wolf560 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't. Each book stands on its own. If an individual says he has a vision or a dream such as John in Revelation, you may want to consider his vision a metaphor of past or future events. In Daniel he spoke specifically of current events during the captivity and many feel he also spoke of future event that are unfolding currently. There are other specific sayings of Christ were is says what he is about to say is true and important. Chapter and verse is not important for you can easily find that. What's really at question is the honesty and divinity of Christ. All faith rises and falls with you dealing with the character of Christ. If he is God everything he says is true. If he's a lire, live your life and find out the truth later.
2006-12-20 14:25:29 · answer #2 · answered by Ron P 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is not anywhere in the OT or the NT. However having talked to a Rabbi, if he doesn't take it as literal, why would you?
I would think that the Jews would have a much better grasp of the OT, since it came from the Torah.
Asking Christian Clergy about the OT in many ways is like going to the person who sings a song instead of going to the song writer and asking what was the inspiration behind the song.
2006-12-20 14:25:57 · answer #3 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All you have to be worried about is having a pure heart and being a good person. Trying to better yourself so you can help humanity. It doesn't matter if you even follow a religion or not, but of course most religious people will disagree with me and call me a blasphemer, or that I am lost, and just look at the condition of the world, it doesn't seem that anything we are doing is making it a better place. Thats just my opinion though.
2006-12-20 15:19:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All I know is that if it doesn't, John Bobbitt has a big problem...
Deuteronomy 23:1-2
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Edit: The next verse says all of you who were born out of wedlock are SOL, too. Sorry! lol
2006-12-20 14:22:59 · answer #5 · answered by Randy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you take a piece of fiction literally?
The bible claims as fact:
that beetles have 4 legs
the earth stands on pillars
the earth has 4 corners and as such could only be either flat or a tetrahedron.
2006-12-20 14:20:16 · answer #6 · answered by sprcpt 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Considering the scriptures are a divine inspriation of God...
Scripture-From G4023; a being held around, that is, (concretely) a passage (of Scripture, as circumscribed): - place.
God would not have given it to us if He did not intend us to live according to it.
2 Thessalonians 3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed
2006-12-20 14:19:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Where does God say that his commands are optional in the bible? Commands are just that - imperative and if you are a Christian you adhere to those commands, not out of obligation but because they naturally come after faith in His promises.
2006-12-20 14:24:45 · answer #8 · answered by maguainc 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The point is that they aren't the words of god, they are the words of man.
2006-12-20 19:19:51 · answer #9 · answered by Kathe H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where in the book Dracula does it say that it is NOT to be taken literally? (the actual story, not the legal mumbo jumbo)
2006-12-20 14:21:59 · answer #10 · answered by I.M. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋