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mono, There are many parables, metaphors, anthropomorphisms in the Bible that are not meant to be read literally. The Christians who read everything from the Bible in a wooden literal sense are practicing bad theology, plain and simple. Here are some examples of each:
Anthropamorphism:
Psalm 34:15, "The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry." God attributes human like characteristics to himself to convey a message.Parable:
"No man puts a piece of new cloth upon an old garment; for that which is put in to fill it up takes from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles, else the bottles break, and the wine runs out, and the bottles perish; but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved." I can assure Jesus is not trying to teach a lesson on wineskins here.Metaphor:
"If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink, (John 7:37)."
Jesus is certainly not talking about drinking here, but about thirsting for spiritual knowledge.So you can see plainly, the Bible was never meant to be read 100% literally. It is a mistake and bad theology to do so, and usually stems from lack of Biblical understanding.
- dude, those were just BIBLICAL massacres...real or not they have some truth to themmonospaced
- a text out of context becomes a pretext.teleos