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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most Biblical religions are not Biblical literalists. Very few are in fact, just the extreme fundamentalist sects.[/quote]
Which means they are just making it up. [/quote]

No, that’s not what that means. If you actually believe that, you have a pretty simple understanding. [/quote]

DP. A simple understanding, but likely also an accurate understanding.[/quote]

DP - actually, no understanding at all. The whole premise of this thread is kindergarten level, illogical, all or nothing, silliness.[/quote]

+1. The Old Testament is the story of a people recording and trying to explain their history. If somebody’s baby or wife died, or a plague struck thousands, people at the time had no medical or scientific explanation and thought it must be God’s doing. But why would God do this? It must be because they had done something wrong. Many millennia ago, free will wasn’t a thing and every incident somehow had to be explained within a framework of God’s justice. Old Testament thinking evolved on this and New Testament thinking is quite different.

As somebody said on page one of this thread, very few people take the Old Testament literally, instead they draw broader spiritual lessons.

This thread is an excercise in playing gotcha games with a tiny number of bible literalists based on a kindergarten-level understanding of the role of the Old Testament. [/quote]

Why then can’t we agree it is not literal or factual but metaphorical and allegorical ?  Then this whole thread can be put to bed.[/quote]

There would be some agreement, but no broad agreement on which parts are factual vs. allegorical. You’re talking about two major religions, after all, and multiple sects within each of those. [/quote]

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