Posted on 03/04/2009 7:16:11 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
Allegory. God is capable of breathing allegory, you know.
“Good point. So what the would he say to 1 Timothy 3:16—”ALL Scripture is God-breathed”? In my limited wisdom, all means ALL.”
Probably the same thing he would say to John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
That was such a “fascist” thing for Jesus to say wasn’t it?
See 61.
Fine, keep calling me names. Fortunately, I am sufficiently Christian to forgive you.
No, He isn’t. God breathes TRUTH.
The problem with taking allegory to the extent that you do is that the Bible has no relevant meaning. You seem to be well educated... honestly that doesn’t always work in your favor.
Truth. Hard to find in the halls of Academia.
Reason. Even tougher.
Moral absolutes. Never darken the door.
If the Bible is not true in the least of its statements then none of it can be trusted. This leaves us to be free moral agents and the Word of God becomes nothing more than “An opiate to the masses.”
You can scream the word “Allegory” from the rooftops, but it means nothing if you neither wrote the Words nor walked with those who did.
You’re not suggesting that there is something that God is not capable of, are you?
Yes, how horrible! Gee, He deserved that cross, didn’t He?
“Fine, keep calling me names. Fortunately, I am sufficiently Christian to forgive you.”
Dearest Buck,
Chachi was a character on Happy Days. I live in the South and there are a lot of folks named Bubba in my neck of the woods.
You act like I called you a liberal or a democrat or something. Now if I’d done that, you would have something to forgive.
I do apologize if I offended your area of sensitivity.
Sincerely,
Sufficiently Forgiven
Take it up with God...oh, I forgot. You have all the answers.
“Do you not agree that Catholics ..., who are fine with the allegory concept, are Christians?”
Did Rome finally renounce the Trent anathemas and Mary worship, and embrace Sola Fide? I must have missed it.
All I can say is, there is a hell of a lot of things in this world that people don’t know. We are only a few hundred years removed from the Dark Ages, do you realise?
Some would argue we’re headed back in that direction. Except this time we’ll have ipods with us.
You cannot take chaos, shake it up and get order without His hand on it. There is no other way. If you read the 1st chapter of the book of Genesis, it explains everything.
Wrong answer. . .
Keep throwin’ them out there and we’ll have to declare the whole Bible allegory. You might need to save some of it so we have something left to believe.
Buck is an Evangelical Allegorist (or is that “Al-Goreist”). He claims those who take the Bible literal are fascist while he pronounces all that we believe to be misguided fairy-tales. If you don’t agree, you’re the one who is wrong.
Who’s the fascist?
And did you notice in one of the earlier posts, he pointed out we are in the minority as Christians? I hope so. I do want to be among the few that walk the narrow path.
“It’s not a smug pronunciation at all. Do you not agree that Catholics and Episcopalians, who are fine with the allegory concept, are Christians?”
Sorry, missed this one. I’m neither so I’d have a hard time responding on their behalf...
Catholics, Episcopalians... Could you answer this for Buck please?
I do know that in the Baptist, Church of God, Assembly of God and most Methodist churches, the Word of God is taken literally except for the obvious parables.
Amen, brother!
I reckon Buckie bugged...
Guess I will too. Keep up the encouragement. The way the world is going we will definitely be a minority before long.
God bless.
GG
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