jaywill writes:
Disbelief of the Bible comes in all shapes and sizes. In your case your escape hatch into disbelief is always "literary genre".
Disrespect of the Bible comes in all shapes and sizes. In your case your escape hatch into disrespect is always "cheap grace." Under the concept of
cheap grace, it is you who claims to share infallibility with God, therefore your interpretations are also infallible and not allowed to be questioned.
Apparently, a little more educated sounding or sophisticated than some cruder rejections. But a rejection of God's word just the same.
I would argue it is you who rejects the true meaning of the Bible by forcing it to be read as a newspaper report under all circumstances, thereby opening it up to endless contradictions both within itself and with the reality your god supposedly created. Then the Bible becomes a tool to support any and all preconceived human motivations, such as
Right Wing Authoritarianism.
In fact according to this
work, the combination of cheap grace and right wing authoritarianism has led to 42% of all evangelicals professing to be above all laws, be they from God or man, as they are already 'saved.' Only a strict literalist could turn a book about morals into a doctrine of amorality.
quote:
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
I read your attempts to still salvage some grand artistic importance from what you read as perhaps just a way to bribe your conscience by getting something else, just not God's speaking.
As the self-proclaimed co-equal authority that claims to speak for God you obviously seek to pass judgment in his absence. What was that first commandment and how did you manage to read the opposite?
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider - Francis Bacon
The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God - Spinoza
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