| That Guy said: We'll just have to agree to disagree on all this Bible stuff. I never insisted on a literal interpretation of the Bible; and apologize if i didn't explicitly state that before. But looking at what I've mentioned, we have to look at the context of the writing and piece things together ("smash" things together, as you like to call it). If I subscribed to a literal interpretation, i would have insisted that the earth was created in 6 literal days (if not 6,000 years). And had we brought up the books of revelation, ezekiel or daniel, its almost impossible to insist on a "literal interpretation" You bring up a lot of contradictions, but my point is that there is a give and take -- there can still be a dialogue as to what really happened. Like my eye-witness analogy; we get all the evidence together and then we can rebuild the scene of the "crime." We can continue on, but as I also mentioned, I'm not interested in you coming up with huge lists and me responding with huge responses. I'll accept a "cease fire" for the sake of brevity. I need to get my Dreamcast hooked up again. Can't get enough of that Space Channel 5. |
Now that the white flag has gone up, I will give my closing comments on this debate. The point that I (and Erebus) were going after may seem like a small one (and it really is) but it can be hard for some people that I have encountered to accept. The Bible is a book thrown together from many accounts by people that were not eyewitnesses many years after these events occurred. Every event can not be taken at face value. Some need interpretation; others are not historically accurate, while others have historical truth to them. Some events were altered to make theological points. (One example is the time of the death of Jesus. This point is nearly impossible to dispute) This throws even more clouds of doubt about what happened, which means that we must be that must more vigilant when reading. We can attempt to fix some of these discrepancies we find, but not all. The Bible needs explanation, commentary and study. God’s explanation of the world must be explained to us moderns. These points are for the most part universally accepted by Bible scholars.
I will leave it up to the readers to fully understand what all this could mean. I have my own thoughts, but I will not bother to go into them here.
Thank you very much for the time you took in debating Erebus and I, That Guy. If at a later time you still want to plunge forward with this debate you are welcome to, and I (and probably Erebus) will attempt to meet the challenge.
Here is to Space Channel 5 3 on the Wii or for that matter anything as long as the series continues.
