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 Originally Posted by BennyLaRue
Originally Posted by wufwugy
our understanding of the christian god comes from a literal interpretation of the bible
That is one understanding of the Christian God, and a very Fundamentalist one at that. As I said above, the majority of the most populous Christian demoninations do not interpret the Old Testament in particular as a text to be taken literally.
truth, knowledge, information, fact, etc. those are all literal. if you want to claim that the genesis creation account is allegorical (which it most likely is) then you have to deny any relation to fact. non-literal things/ideas make no predictions, cannot be tested, have no definitions; and those are prerequisites for truths. if we do not have those then we are provided with no truths. do you see how this means that non-literal interpretations of religions tell us nothing?
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