Spartan
Well-Known Member
The claim that Bible believers are literalists is a bogus argument used to denigrate Christians and other adherents. Wikipedia notes, "The term "biblical literalism" is often used as a pejorative to describe or ridicule the interpretative approaches of fundamentalist or evangelical Christians."
Do skeptics really think we Christians believe God is a giant bird in the 91st Psalm (91:5)? Come on.
There's all kinds of literary devices found in the Bible. There's symbolism, similes, metaphors, idioms, and allegories, etc., etc. But will you ever hear the skeptics mention those exist when they do an OP on Bible literalists? The individual who wrote the OP Post #1 apparently doesn't know about them, or deliberately chose not to mention it. Nor did hardly any of the skeptics who posted afterwards. Nope, they'd rather continue the charade that Bible believers must be truly ignorant individuals.
And then there's the skeptics who claim they know more about the Bible than Christian believers. They fail to mention all the hundreds and hundreds of times their sophomoric arguments are shot down. Sure, there's some skeptics who know more, but there's a great cadre of other believers who eat their lunches regularly. Skeptics will cite contradiction after contradiction from skeptics websites but do they ever read websites that explain or counter those alleged contradictions? Not in a million years.
And by the way, skeptics love to use literalist arguments and examples against believers to try to make them look ignorant, when the truth is that they are the ones who actually look foolish.
Do skeptics really think we Christians believe God is a giant bird in the 91st Psalm (91:5)? Come on.
There's all kinds of literary devices found in the Bible. There's symbolism, similes, metaphors, idioms, and allegories, etc., etc. But will you ever hear the skeptics mention those exist when they do an OP on Bible literalists? The individual who wrote the OP Post #1 apparently doesn't know about them, or deliberately chose not to mention it. Nor did hardly any of the skeptics who posted afterwards. Nope, they'd rather continue the charade that Bible believers must be truly ignorant individuals.
And then there's the skeptics who claim they know more about the Bible than Christian believers. They fail to mention all the hundreds and hundreds of times their sophomoric arguments are shot down. Sure, there's some skeptics who know more, but there's a great cadre of other believers who eat their lunches regularly. Skeptics will cite contradiction after contradiction from skeptics websites but do they ever read websites that explain or counter those alleged contradictions? Not in a million years.
And by the way, skeptics love to use literalist arguments and examples against believers to try to make them look ignorant, when the truth is that they are the ones who actually look foolish.