it just seems to me like if your going to take some, you have to take it all.....
2007-05-23 10:38:46 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
but how? ..
2007-05-23 10:44:16 · update #1
ALL Christians are fundamentalists. And they're all republicans too. And they all own assult rifles with 30 round magazines. Their wives all wear fur coats. Oh, and they all drive SUV's.
2007-05-23 10:41:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't think anybody has time to teach you a course on comparative religion and the Judeo-Christian tradition on Yahoo Answers. There is a wide array of interpretation and practice among Christians today and through the years. IF you are truly interested, you can do some reading or take a class.
Although I do not consider myself a Christian, I do not hold in contempt the belief systems and indeed the "mythology" in many religions, including Christianity.
Jesus often used parables to illustrate concepts. It is not a really big leap to view other parts of the Bible in the same context. Not factual, but meaningful.
2007-05-23 10:58:53 · answer #2 · answered by Spice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why? I am a christian and not a fundamentalist. I believe in evolution, the Big Bang, etc... I do so without any internal conflict whatsoever.
Here is one reason why: Where it says in Genesis that God created the earth in a "day," the Hebrew word translated as day doesn't actually mean a literal day. It means time period and the amount of time is unspecified. Thus, it could just as easily be a billion years as a day. The original Hebrew makes no difference in meaning. During that billion years evolution could have began, etc...
I'm Christian, not a fundie. The bible is a spiritual guide. Some of it is literal. Some of it is allegorical, metaphorical, and metonymic. Either way it is still a guide.
2007-05-23 10:42:03 · answer #3 · answered by The Ponderer 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The bible is difficult to interpret, even for bible scholars. The context is not completely understood by anyone. Even Jesus spoke often in parables.
I think a fundamentalist Christian is just a person who thinks they understand the correct interpretation of the bible or interpret everything literally. Of course either way they're going to be wrong.
2007-05-23 10:47:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Some people claim to be Christian and are really not. If you are saved and baptized, you have the Holy Spirit and you will be a fundamentalist.
2007-05-23 10:52:09 · answer #5 · answered by Chloe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said "Why do you call me Lord and not do the things I teach?" He was talking about liberal Christians - taking the parts that agree with them and not the parts that don't.
Jesus came to heal us. Imagine only taking the medicine that tasted good but not all the medicine that your doctor prescribed - would you expect to get well?
BTW - For people who think God used evolution to create us - If evolution happened, then Adam didn't exist. If Adam and Eve didn't exist, then humanity had no reason to be kicked out of the garden of Eden. And no need for Jesus.
2007-05-23 11:05:49 · answer #6 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because your a democrat or a republican does not mean you agree with everything that your party does. Some Christians have faith in the existence of god but also realize that God doesn't work on our timetable, with all of the refutable evidence for evolution, it would be silly to argue against it, unless your Kirk Cameron. Some Christians realize that the bible is often figurative and was not meant to be taken literally but rather teach morals.
2007-05-23 10:43:57 · answer #7 · answered by jay k 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is two books. The Old and the New Testaments. The two books have different views. In addition, neither book has insight on some stuff (Gays, Abortion, etc.) so there's discretion there.
This is pretty condensed, but it's true.
2007-05-23 10:44:29 · answer #8 · answered by Tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, for one thing, Christ wasn't a fundamentalist. He was a liberal hippie troublemaker resisting the occupying forces and their puppet government.
The dingbats who take the bible literally in all regards are far more primitive than the early followers of Christ. At least if you lived 3,000 years ago it wasn't possible to look at creation any other way. These people actively resist reality to maintain their fantasy.
2007-05-23 10:45:38 · answer #9 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Be pretty difficult..You have to take it in it's context, but the Bible is the only foundation upon which to base Christianity..
2007-05-23 10:44:44 · answer #10 · answered by † PRAY † 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋