/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16222692]

>THE BIBLE IS JUST A METAPHOR Y..YOU DONT HAVE TO TAKE EVERYTHING LITERALLY

[Anonymous No.16222721]

There is history and art displayed in the Bible.

[Anonymous No.16222728]

>>16222692
Yeah, this one is a particularly embarrassing attempt from the christcucks. Unable to answer the scientific evidence against the worldwide flood, Christians have resorted to interpreting it all mythologically/metaphorically. The problem with this is that the flood is described in the Bible with the same literary force, clarity, and directness as anything else. If the flood can be rejected as not real, then so can everything else. I can just as justifiably call the virgin birth "metaphorical", or the crucifixion, or the resurrection, or anything else in the Bible. This is what the creationist camp has rightly seen, which is why they have chosen to go the retard route of denying science and clinging to the Biblical narrative, whereas the "rational", "up-to-date", "forward-thinking" Christians have had to pretend it's not a problem.

[Anonymous No.16222735]

>Everything mentioned in the Bible happened. Jesus' miracles, the parting of the red sea, all true.

[Anonymous No.16222773]

i am completely atheistic, but i believe the bible is packed with meaning and truth.
give me a concentrated work of human the experience and then maybe i'll set it aside; even then my personal interpretation might inspire insight of the world, through the honest but ambiguous lessons in the bible.

[Anonymous No.16222847]

read lolita instead :)

[Anonymous No.16223060]

>>16222692
What are the physical implications of heaven and hell not being a metaphor?

[Anonymous No.16223145]

>>16222692
the bible has been interpreted metaphorically since before there was even an established cannon
only a fedora would be that ignorant of history

[Anonymous No.16223163]

>>16223145
>replying to bait threads

[Anonymous No.16223584]

>>16222773
>i believe the bible is packed with meaning and truth.
http://www.limpidsoft.com/small/antichrist.pdf

[Anonymous No.16223592]

>>16222728
Reddit

[Anonymous No.16223610]

>>16223060
you will have to physically not act like an asshole

[Anonymous No.16223668]

>>16222692
>not taking every word of the Bible literally
Yes, Adam lived 600 years or something. They were originally immortal beings like angels, with death and decay only introduced after the fall. It makes perfect sense that the lifespan would start out long for the original humans after the fall and then drop off with each generation. The parting of the red sea happened, as did the sun staying still with Joshua. Everything is possible with God, and to question otherwise is blasphemy

[Anonymous No.16224005]

Do you even know what a metaphor is?

[Anonymous No.16224018]

>>16222692
>The Bible As Literature

heh... yeah i'll take that class. i'll use the knowledge to disprove Christianity.

[Anonymous No.16224138]

>>16222692
You definitionally can't take anything literally as we have epistemic uncertainty.
That shows inability to understand objective fact but postulate that you can improve on information, such as the framework is enlarged or you get better insight vs first skim to first deep-dive, then you can say this about anything.
It's not possible or helpful to assume anything can be read literally.

[Anonymous No.16224553]

>>16223145
no
according to the byzantine calendar, for example, the world is younger than 8.000 years old. people did and do interpret the bible literally, even the book of genesis.

[Anonymous No.16226022]

>>16222692
Ever heard of Bible Exegesis, brainlet?

[Anonymous No.16226039]

>>16222692
Funny how the more intelligent on average humanity becomes, the more metaphorical Bible turns out to be

[Anonymous No.16226612]

>>16222773
Based. And while not necessarily truth, it is definitely packed with meaning. Take it as a mixture of myth and oral tradition. It’s 10/10 in that sense

[Anonymous No.16226732]

>>16226039
Not really. St. Augustine said Genesis should be interpreted allegorically (he was born in 354).

[Anonymous No.16226945]

>>16226732
Having read Augustine, he doesn't really say that. He acknowledges that the words of scripture can suggest multiple meanings, but decries anyone who would say that Moses did not see the truth clearly or that he did not write it in the way God intended it. He never actually allows that Genesis is allegorical, only that the workings of Genesis are opaque. It must be accepted there were seven days, but as God has created time and is outside if it, perhaps the days described are not like our days. But I strongly encourage you to read the full Confessions. It has been a while since I read it, and so I cannog provide the necessary detail and nuance his writing deserves.

[Anonymous No.16226965]

>>16226039
>contemporary man is more knowledgeable and intelligent than historic man
>history is progress
>technological complexity is an adequate measure for human progress
>we, who are further from the past, can judge it more accurately than those on whose accounts we rely
Heresy

[Anonymous No.16227171]

>>16222692
Anyone who read revelation for example and thinks its literal, is mentally ill.

[Anonymous No.16227233]

>>16222692
I know it's bait but as I said a couple of days ago on /lit/, as Guénon and Lao Tse said, before writing real knowledge was orally transmitted, sacred text have an exoteric and an esoteric meaning: exoteric is what it was written literally while esoteric is the hidden meaning of writings.

[Anonymous No.16227246]

>>16222692
It's all to the good if it's metaphor. You learn more from metaphor than through literal statements.

[Anonymous No.16227500]

>>16226965
>>contemporary man is more knowledgeable and intelligent than historic man
Yes, it's undeniable
>>history is progress
Yes, not on all fronts, maybe, but it's undeniable
>>technological complexity is an adequate measure for human progress
It's a good measure of human technological progress
>>we, who are further from the past, can judge it more accurately than those on whose accounts we rely
I never implied that

[Anonymous No.16227509]

>>16227500
Knowledge and intelligence does not equal wisdom and insight.

[Anonymous No.16227543]

>>16227500
I deny it.