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Originally Posted by avb3
So now we are interpreting what the bible means?
What happened to the literalism? What happened to the inerrantcy?
You have to see how this type of picking and choosing of what is real and what is not causes many to look very askew at the whole.
Can't you see that?
But that is EXACTLY the point... fundamentalist and evangelicals quote chapter and verse on some points and tell the world that it is the inerrant bible that tells us so, and then, when questioned on some points, the rest of us are told not to take it so literally.
You can't have it both ways... either the bible is literal or it isn't.
If it isn't, then doesn't that substantiate my much earlier comment that if it is taken allegorically and metaphorically, that the spiritual message is much stronger then if any part of it is taken literally?
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those people are called cafeteria christians, here's the wikipedia link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafeteria_Christianity