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When to be literal?

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10-30-2012 6:19 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Larni
10-30-2012 8:19 AM

How do people who use the Bible as a bases for their Christianity decide what is literal and what is not?
It is really a game of self-deception.
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Is there a useful way to categorise literal verses from metaphorical?
They claim that the Bible is literal and inerrant. But "inerrant" is what they consider most important.
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Where the Bible disagrees with what they want to believe is true, they will take that text as symbolic in some way, because that allows them the maintain their illusion of inerrancy.
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Where the Bible agrees with what they want to believe is true (or disagrees with what they want to believe is false), they will take it as literal.
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11-05-2012 1:57 PM 		Reply to: Message 56 by GDR
11-05-2012 1:39 PM

Re: Books of the Bible...an aside
In the US it seems that people get their nationalism, politics and faith intertwined in a way that doesn't happen in other countries.
Talking about other countries, have you ever looked at Pakistan or Iran?
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