To: WRhine
I think that literalists and fundamentalists try to domesticate God and make him fit their understanding of reality or behave in predictable ways based on their perceptions (or aspirations) of politics or culture or tribal loyalties or whatever.
To: Patria One
And unliteralists (?) and those who esentialy reject portions of the Scriptures they find uncomfortable do not wish to mold God into their ideas? Come now...
To: Patria One
I think that literalists and fundamentalists try to domesticate God and make him fit their understanding of reality or behave in predictable ways based on their perceptions (or aspirations) of politics or culture or tribal loyalties or whatever. Well Put! I agree. And they (fundamentalist) do a lot of picking and choosing out of bible instead of considering the book as a whole. One thing that stands out is that they ignore much of Christ's message of forgiveness and meekness and focus on the more "fear of God" messages in the Old Testament.
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12/06/2001 9:17:47 AM PST by
WRhine
To: Patria One
I think that literalists and fundamentalists try to domesticate God and make him fit their understanding of reality or behave in predictable ways based on their perceptions (or aspirations) of politics or culture or tribal loyalties or whatever.
While you appear to take the Gnostic route. I am a literalist (which you seem to demean as 'unenlightened') but I in no way believe I can understand all that God is apart from what scripture reveals to us.
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