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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm fine with people reading the Gospels literally, or not reading them literally. I even wish some of the Christianity bashers here had a clue about what's really in the gospels.

There are a few things in Paul's letters I'm not so comfortable with (anti-homosexuality). But I'm in the camp that thinks Paul shouldn't be taken literally for our day, because Paul was writing pastoral letters and is very specific to his time and context.[/quote]

About reading the gospels literally, this reminds me of the pro-establishing English as the national language  fundamentalist Christians saying that if English was good enough for Jesus it is good enough for us.

Anyone who read the gospels literally in English hasn't even the barest acquaintance with the history of the religion.  They are hard to read literally in Greek because the meaning of phrases so many years later is not always clear, the gospels contradict one another (medieval theologians made extensive catalogues of the contradictions), and they were set down by numerous authors years after the fact.

Also, those who read it literally seem to think Jesus was and spoke as a lawyer, which he decidedly wasn't.  Hard to think that someone who taught in parables wished his words to be taken literally.[/quote]

It's not that bad, really. [b]My mother (yes, my mother!) learned koine Greek to read the gospels and she found nothing very earth-shaking[/b]. It's true there are some differences among the four gospels as to what Jesus said or did, which is undoubtedly due to the nature of these witness accounts that were recorded after Jesus' death. But while you may not get the exact same parables or lineage in every gospel, the fundamental message is very much the same.[/quote]

So  your Mom said it so it must be true?   This is how people just accept things without thinking about it very much.[/quote]

Maybe what she meant was, since her mother learned to read the gospel in that language, others can do it too. She didn't ask anyone to rely on her mothers word, she just shared her mothers view.[/quote]

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