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That the Bible needs to be read and intepreted from viewpoint of being literal?
Just trying to see if that is the position in majority of our circles on how to read and understand the Word of God...
That the Bible needs to be read and intepreted from viewpoint of being literal?
That the Bible needs to be read and intepreted from viewpoint of being literal?
Just trying to see if that is the position in majority of our circles on how to read and understand the Word of God...
Yes with qualification.
e.g. Parables. metaphors, allegories, similes, hyperboles, figures of speech, etc, etc...
All of these figurative tools of communication have a literal, singular meaning behind them. This takes discernment to interpret properly.
e.g. Are the seven days of Genesis 1 literal or figurative?
Are the 1000 years of Revelation literal or figurative?
Did Jesus mean the following in a figurative or literal way?
John 6
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
HankD
Or how about the scripture that says the wicked go astray from the womb and are born speaking lies? I have eight children, and not one of them could speak the day they were born. Should that be taken literally? Should doctrine be based on this obvious hyperbole?
I've had 11 (ha - I three-upped you) and each came out of the womb expressing their displeasure when they should have been expressing thankfulness for the life they had been given...
Hebrew dabar to speak, to declare...
So yes, we can take that one literally
HankD
Crying is not lying. And if you were forced through a small passageway today, you would cry again.
That the Bible needs to be read and intepreted from viewpoint of being literal?
Just trying to see if that is the position in majority of our circles on how to read and understand the Word of God...
I would say that the claim is present, but the actual holding to the claim is not. Very few today in the church believe the bible. What they believe is personal doctrine above the word of God. if you don't believe that here is just one verse that is rejected for personal doctrine and there are many more. Mnay hold a doctrine that a Christian can backslide into the practice of sin which denies this passage.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit (practice) sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot (practice) sin, because he is born of God.
Crying is not lying. And if you were forced through a small passageway today, you would cry again.
FAL
Could you help me understand how YOU see "practice" of sin? Is it once per day, twice per day etc.? What is it?
Do we take the Bible at its "face value/plain message"...
Do read it in the appropiate waybthat God inspired it as writeen..
Interpret Prophecy with its rules, metaphors, parables etc..
Mydefinition of "literal" is to read each passage according to the "rules" for each type, but have the palin meaning of it..
For example...
Jesus said he is the Door, dont believe that he is literally a wooden door, but a manner of speech...
Read and understand each genre by its manner of rules, but read thing literally when that is the "plain sense" of the passage...
Or how about the scripture that says the wicked go astray from the womb and are born speaking lies? I have eight children, and not one of them could speak the day they were born. Should that be taken literally? Should doctrine be based on this obvious hyperbole?
You understand a verse based on other texts that make it clearer sometime.
They were conceived in sin...dead in Adam...having sinned in adam.
Until and unless God grants them repentance and faith....they go astray,they go away from God,by nature. There is never a time they are going toward God unless the Spirit begins to draw them savingly.
They go astray.....the result is speaking lies.......chilrden are born sinners and self sinners.....put 20 toys in a room and two little children and they will fight over one toy. They sin before they speak,it is natural.When they speak they speak lies.