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Originally Posted by pelathais
Well, so far, Not4Sale's statement hasn't been "sucked into oblivion."
I've come to think of the Bible as being a sort of Guidebook, and not some sort of Final Jeopardy style know-it-all "Answer Book." If you go to the Bible looking for absolute answers to everything, you often come back looking rather foolish. Just look at the Young Earth Creationists.
If however, you approach the Bible with a bit of humility and knock-it-off with the "God Talks To Me Inside My Head" nonsense, you do have the opportunity to glean a great deal of wisdom that has been accumulated, refined, stored and transmitted just for this purpose.
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To be honest, I was thinking of this very thing today. The Bible is truly an amazing Book. I don't think any other Book on Earth is really quite like it. It can basically go whatever direction you go, and I think this might be the dilemma with people who try to define Scripture.
It appears that God may be a lot more flexible than we think. My wife and I have been doing a little research on Jewish Theology and have found some interesting concepts used by Rabbi's. One that fascinated me was that they believe there are 70 different interpretations to every "Word" in Scripture (Torah), and they are ALL right!
They also believe the Scripture to possess 4 different meanings to every event; allegorical, metaphorical, mystical, and literal, and they are ALL right.
It seems that 2 people can disagree on Scripture using the above method(s), yet they are both right.
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