2007-05-04 16:52:36 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you can't pick and choose what you like and don't like.
literal:
yes
Eziekiel 14:14
Eziekiel 14:20
Job 5:11
read these verses.they talk of Job as a person.
(I wonder if you have read any of Job or any of the bible?
Just wonder).
2007-05-04 17:15:19 · answer #1 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I guess they do. I don't call myself a bible literalist but I (and all Christians that I know) would take it to mean what it says. What other interpretations of it are there?
I think of bible literalists as being people who think creation happened in exactly seven days. I don't think that (and most Christians I know don't, either. Not that I think it really matters if it happened in 7 days or not).
2007-05-04 16:59:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem with the assumption is that it is 50/50 in my point of view. Before you stop and thumbs down me- let me explain: There are historical markers and scientific markers that indicate literal happenings in the Bible. Is everything supposed to be literal today and not seen as example- If so there are a heck of a lot of stonings to catch up on. The Bible depicts examples of G-d's love, His power, His forgiveness, it also shows man's efforts to fulfill the desire G-d already has with us- Man needs G-d not vice versa- God desires a loving relationship with man, and we love because he first loved us. In so much, there are moral stories, parables written specifically to the knowledge of the time- now it is not coincidence that there are warnings of floods, fires, faminine, etc... these things didn start happening when man started writing or translating- but there were literal messages and they are not going to stop as a scientific phenominon either. To believe in evolution one would almost certainly have to agree that in a great void of nothing- dust had to come from somewhere- for if there was nothing- there were also not dust mites... Christianity calls on Faith- believing without seeing. Does it mean every story in the Bible is literal for today? No - Some basis of understanding needs to occur- the Bible depicts G-d's power and man's effort to experience G-d's love. If you consider any parable or story- many are written of the Bible as a basis. Can we explain how we went from 1 dialect to hundreds of languages? Science can not explain this and we watch as language evolves but there would be some respectively close parameter of the basis- English is based on Latin as are many languages but is Latin based on Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic (the three literal languages of the Bible). No man completely understands the Bible and many focus too heavily on what I refer to as "sin off-setting" i.e.: I have not murdered anyone, I haven't insert wrong doing here- so see I am closer to G-d because my sin isnt that...the Bible indicates Sin IS Sin- murder and a lil' white lie are the same thing- no offsets- one unforgiven denying Jesus as Saviour through profession and acceptance. I think the problem plauging the church is dogma, theology, hupocrisy- not the Bible. not Christianity- the interpretation and closed minded belief many people have and they call it faith- it is not faith Paul wrote to Timothy and said those who mislead others are misled themselves. The Bible is a book about G-d, an example, a guidebook- Not a science book... If the world is a stage and we are merely actors and actresses- Who's Directing? There is much of the Bible written for the time. We know that we are to act in faith because we "don't have the whole picture." They did not have it when the Bible was written either. Science runs virtually hand in hand with the Bible, not against it. There are literalists that start organizations like NARTH and people like the Phelps out there- but then again Christians all to often say "I am not that bad, so I am forgiven"- My final point. "Sitting in a church no more makes a person a Christian than sitting in a garage makes them a Porshe" and Christians are supposed to be known to others by their actions and faith not their self-proclimation - "Can they see G-d for who He really is?" - Today the church and "Christians" seem to forget this point-
2016-04-01 09:09:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the Bible said that Jesus morphed from a whale literalists would be crying a modern miracle.
2007-05-04 16:57:23 · answer #4 · answered by ibid 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes.
2007-05-04 16:57:34 · answer #5 · answered by Esther 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I know what you mean...kinda mean spirited of God to be playing an innocent man for betting purposes.
2007-05-04 17:03:03 · answer #6 · answered by sketch_mylife 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, hence the word 'literal'ist
2007-05-04 16:57:14 · answer #7 · answered by me 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That God talked to Satan? Yes. If that's what you mean.
2007-05-04 16:59:21 · answer #8 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup, they sure do.
Oh, the story of Job, letting God show off his sadism.
2007-05-04 16:59:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I will say yes they do. Why are asking?
2007-05-04 16:57:30 · answer #10 · answered by zoril 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋