Any other christians who question the bible?

[PuuMastaFunk]

They are metaphors.

How, exactly?

[Daddy]

How, exactly?

It's convenient in that situation to say those comments are not literal.

Just like the Bible ^___^

[PuuMastaFunk]

It's convenient in that situation to say those comments are not literal.

Just like the Bible ^___^

So, then history itself is not literal, then? So, Washington didn't really cross the Deleware, and Napoleon didn't really lose at Waterloo? Oh, and I'm guessing that at Iwo Jima, we actually lost?

The Bible is also a history book, not just a set of rules.

[Daddy]

So, then history itself is not literal, then? So, Washington didn't really cross the Deleware, and Napoleon didn't really lose at Waterloo? Oh, and I'm guessing that at Iwo Jima, we actually lost?

The Bible is also a history book, not just a set of rules.

what

Okay let's play a game: literal or metaphor?

Creation
Flood
Sodom and Gomorroaaoaoorororoooah
Jonah
David and Goliath
Revelation
Christ's birth
The star in the sky.
Moses's plagues

[PuuMastaFunk]

what

Okay let's play a game: literal or metaphor?

Creation: Literal to me, possibly a metaphor.
Flood: Literal.
Sodom and "Gamorah": Literal. They found the ruins.
Jonah: Possibly metaphor.
David and Goliath: ...You know, I can't say...
Revelation: Literal, 99%. There are only 4 symbols in the entire thing, and that's the four horsemen.
Christ's birth: Literal. He WAS born, whether Jesus was actually Christ or not.
The star in the sky: ...Probably metaphor.
Moses's plagues: Literal.

[guff]

eeny meeny miney mo

[Daddy]

I think I got that argument down.

The Bible is also a history book, not just a set of rules.

"The bible is a history book, except this part that's a fable"

[Travis]

i don't get how you can take quite obviously false stories literally 

[PuuMastaFunk]

i don't get how you can take quite obviously false stories literally 

How can they be "obviously" false? There's nothing that proves against it. What if I said that the Big Bang Theory was a bunch of bullshit? There's no way that a huge bit of "nothing" exploded and created the entire universe in 100 trillion year. What came before the Big Bang? What caused it?

It's every bit as much as unbelievable as creation.

[Travis]

How can they be "obviously" false? There's nothing that proves against it. What if I said that the Big Bang Theory was a bunch of bullshit? There's no way that a huge bit of "nothing" exploded and created the entire universe in 100 trillion year. What came before the Big Bang? What caused it?

It's every bit as much as unbelievable as creation.

yeah well i wasn't focusing only on the creation thing but ok

also there's this thing known as cosmic background radiation, which is usually considered proof of the big bang

[PuuMastaFunk]

yeah well i wasn't focusing only on the creation thing but ok

also there's this thing known as cosmic background radiation, which is usually considered proof of the big bang

There's also this thing known as miricles, which is usually considered proof of God.

When you have terminal cancer one day, and it's completely gone the next, wouldn't you consider that a miricle?

[Daddy]

There's also this thing known as miricles, which is usually considered proof of God.

When you have terminal cancer one day, and it's completely gone the next, wouldn't you consider that a miricle?

It's called remission though uh I can't really think of a case there terminal cancer just "disappears" overnight without any medical intervention.

[YPrrrr]

So, then history itself is not literal, then? So, Washington didn't really cross the Deleware, and Napoleon didn't really lose at Waterloo? Oh, and I'm guessing that at Iwo Jima, we actually lost?

Well apparently Vietnam is open for interpretation.

[PuuMastaFunk]

Well apparently Vietnam is open for interpretation.

Lol, my history teacher would kill you.

[YPrrrr]

Lol, my history teacher would kill you.

Is he one of those that believes we won in some manner