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Originally Posted by MacDuff
I’ve been fascinated by how so many Christians can’t take the first and last books of the Bible literally. As if what was written is some sort of mythical reference or a parable like thing that stands for something else.
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Are you talking about the first few chapters of the first book and some of the last book?
From what I can see, most who insist on a "way" read all of Genesis as literal. And despite references to "types and figures" in Revelation, too much is read as if absolutely a spot-on account of a sequence of events.
But in fairness, I wonder whether you actually meant what you wrote the way you wrote it. Most who would read all of Genesis in a literal way just couldn't arrive at an agnostic/atheistic position. If Genesis 1 through 3 is literal, then either God has to be what the Bible says, or the whole thing is an alternate to the Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, etc., myths of the time just to have their own stories. And is meaningless. If the former, no uncertainty about the truth of God. If the latter, then again, no uncertainty about the falsity of God.
I don't get it.
But that isn't the end of the conversation. Just noting something that doesn't track with my thinking. And maybe that is why it is my thinking and not yours — because I am the one thinking it and not you.
