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Thread #142452   Message #3312538
Posted By: GUEST,Paul Burke
24-Feb-12 - 02:06 AM
Thread Name: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Subject: RE: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Do you believe that it is possible to question, doubt, or disbelieve some of the contents of the Bible and still be a Christian?"
It's not that I don't have an answer to this question, Don. The Bible does.


Round and round. If the Bible isn't 100% literally true, whatever answer the Bible gives has to be examined to decide whether it is to be taken literally or metaphorically. At school, they taught us that some saint's prayer was highly sophisticated: "Oh my God, I believe in Thee and all thy Church doth teach, because Thou hast said it, and Thy Word is true" (their capitalisation). Even as ten-year-olds, we could see the flaw in that.

in any case, even if the Bible were 100% true, all Christians accept that parts of it (at the very least the bits about sacrificing lambs) were superseded in the New Testament. But since there's no list of which bits were repealed and which still hold, you still don't know when you read a statement if it is the working rule or not.

Which of course is where Protestantism came in. The Pope and his butties claimed a monopoly in interpretation, and justified it with biblical references. Now we have the descendants of those who fought and fried and died for their right to their own interpretation, claiming that they (or their local pope/imam) own God.