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Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple
Ok then does this mean you also reject the idea that one single being we call "God" spoke and created the Universe? I never thought I would hear Apostolics belittling that which is written in scripture.
I guess to some the Bible is just a series of fairy tales.
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No Michael. It's your interpretation of the Bible that I apparently take issue with... though I had no idea that this was your understanding until now.
The Bible, in the Book of Genesis does appear to lay out a series of events that if interpreted literally would make the earth appear to be just 6,000 years old. This age is of course ridiculous. So, what do we do? Do we throw out the Bible just the way the atheists have told you to? Or is it worth another look?
That's where I stood several years back. I was honestly willing to embrace atheism or at least agnosticism if that's where the evidence led me. But instead, I was led to take another look at the Bible.
Today, I can say that my faith and my belief in God is stronger and more confident than it has ever been. The only things I had to give up were the traditions of men and then I had to accept the Bible
on its own terms. The text of the Bible does have a history and that history is shown within the very pages of the Bible itself.
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Luke 10:30-37, Jesus tells a story with a great bit of detail. He follows up that story with a very direct commandment that we are to actually follow the example of one of the characters in the story.
Yet you don't believe that this story ever actually happened - no one does. It was a parable. But the parable contains divinely inspired truth and a commandment that we all still should follow today.
What would happen if someone said about the parables of Jesus what you said earlier...
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Ok then does this mean you also reject the idea that one single being we call "God" spoke and created the Universe? I never thought I would hear Apostolics belittling that which is written in scripture.
I guess to some the Bible is just a series of fairy tales.
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That's all Jesus really did? Did He just tell a bunch of "fairy tales" (parables) that we can just all shuck out with yesterday's potato peelings and coffee grounds?
I think His words are rather more important than that, even if many of His stories were just made up to make a point. I'd like to be able to consider the point of the story and not be told that I have to believe the obviously parable-like details.
This approach, to me, seems to give a greater amount of respect and authority to the Scripture then forcing nonsensical ideas into the text.
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