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Gallup: Only 24% of Americans Believe Bible is Literal Word of God
Cybercast News Service ^ | May 19, 2017 | 2:45 PM EDT | Michael W. Chapman

Posted on 05/20/2017 10:17:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: ifinnegan; Olog-hai; 21twelve; AndyTheBear; Jim Noble
Overall this is a canard having to do with “literal” which can mean different things to different people.

Yes, see 39

41 posted on 05/21/2017 4:28:12 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: Trumpet 1
William Shakespeare wrote one of the psalms.

Absurd.

42 posted on 05/21/2017 4:28:39 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: TalBlack
It makes no sense that an entity that can create Time itself and put Men in it would then inspire men to write words that then fail to be literal.

Better said, "then fail to literally be the word of God, but far from all being literal language."

43 posted on 05/21/2017 4:31:12 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: LukeL; SaveFerris; Roman_War_Criminal
Narrow is the path.<\i>

Amen. Christ said so.

We have discussed this topic on FR many times, and I am convinced that the percentage of true, saved, redeemed Christians in the US is very small. Most likely in the single digits. I lived in Europe for several years. Christianity there is almost nonexistent. In the Middle East, the few Christians there are being wiped out.

When Jesus said, "And few find it", He was telling us the literal truth. Few.

44 posted on 05/21/2017 4:36:52 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Trumpet 1

“William Shakespeare wrote one of the psalms.”

Where did that come from? Could you provide a source?


45 posted on 05/21/2017 4:39:14 AM PDT by Paperpusher
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To: daniel1212

When Bible words are not literal then the non literal words are representing something that is literal such as in the use of symbolism or some other figure of speech.


46 posted on 05/21/2017 4:40:35 AM PDT by SeargentPrestonoftheYukon ("All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable...")
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To: Eurotwit

Your snarky, judgy post is duly noted as is your lack of intellect to grasp the essence of God’s Word in the Bible.

Or perhaps you just reject God and attempt to hide your hate behind snarky posts?

You satanic koranimals are all the same...not unlike the typical eurotwit.


47 posted on 05/21/2017 4:42:37 AM PDT by newfreep ("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
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To: Olog-hai

A fake question to compliment fake news.


48 posted on 05/21/2017 5:00:20 AM PDT by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: Olog-hai

The fall of man in the garden was the result of doubting God’s Word. The first recorded words of Satan were “Yea, hath God said?”. Then in John 1 we see that Jesus is the Word and in Revelation 19:13 when Jesus returns, He is called the “Word of God”. Doubt the Word at your own eternal risk.


49 posted on 05/21/2017 5:04:12 AM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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Incidentally, the reason that certain people cannot understand that Bible figures of speech refer to literal truth, thus all the Bible is in a sense literal, is found here:

1 Corinthians 2;14 “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” -King James Version


50 posted on 05/21/2017 5:08:32 AM PDT by SeargentPrestonoftheYukon ("All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable...")
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To: Olog-hai

Churches and the people in them have become apostate—not showing the love of Jesus by word and deed. Instead, we have either become Pharisees (emphasizing the law/imperatives but not showing kindness) *or* we embrace progressive works based salvation. False Christianity in that vein welcomes everyone while ignoring the Bible’s teaching on sin and the need to repent and live a holy life.

Liberals usually are the latter. Conservatives are the former.

Jesus never endorsed sin, but he also sought to help and embrace those hurt by its effects. If we followed His path, by His grace, more people would see the truth of Scripture.


51 posted on 05/21/2017 5:09:40 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Olog-hai
You’d think Gallup would give up after being exposed by the last election. But they always double down on lies.

You think this poll is a lie? Do tell.

52 posted on 05/21/2017 5:10:19 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Olog-hai

I believe.


53 posted on 05/21/2017 5:11:08 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Olog-hai

They didn’t do presidential election polling last year, IIRC.


54 posted on 05/21/2017 5:11:29 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: soycd

It’s called Faith.


55 posted on 05/21/2017 5:11:36 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Kent1957

He’s thinking of Psalm 46. There’s been speculation that Shakespeare wrote it because the 46th word from the beginning is “shake” and the 46th word from the end is “spear.” But there’s no actual evidence that he did.

For one thing there’s more than one way to count the words. To make it work, you have to not count the “Selahs.” For another, his name appears in no list of translators. For a third, they’re very different (unless you think all Elizabethan writing sounds alike). Shakespeare had a huge vocabulary. The KJV has a very small one.


56 posted on 05/21/2017 5:16:44 AM PDT by Hilda
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To: Olog-hai

Bible ping


57 posted on 05/21/2017 5:19:50 AM PDT by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA. (Owner of Stars and Bars Flags))
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To: daniel1212

Sophistry.

There are no limits on the Author of all things. That you do not see the literal meaning in the words does not mean it is not there. We don’t like the meaning we sense in the words, a sense breathed into our dust by the Author, so in defense of ourselves we start lawyering up and throwing around words like “literally”. God said what he meant. HE is TRUTH. The words cannot be other than literal.


58 posted on 05/21/2017 5:20:05 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: LadyDoc

Dictated to Muhammad by supposedly Allah. There is no proof that Allah was anything more than a wet dream by Mohammed.

Allah is NOT god. THERE IS NO ALLAH! FAKE god!.


59 posted on 05/21/2017 5:33:47 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Trumpet 1

“The Geneva Bible refered to the various kings in the Old Testament as Tyrants.”

It was the commentary in the Geneva Bible that referred to kings as tyrants. King James wanted a Bible without commentary so as not to decrease the king’s authority (give people ideas about government such as the Geneva Bible did) and to retain church terminology. Other than that, it was translated by the best scholars of the day (non-governmental).


60 posted on 05/21/2017 5:34:05 AM PDT by odawg
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