Literal vs Metaphor challenge

@thinkofone said
C3 had it pegged from the beginning:
[quote]If someone likes what a specific verse or verses say, it's literal.

If someone dislikes the message, then they either dismiss it, or convince themselves it's a metaphor.

In your case Dive, you do not want to believe in hell, so you will continue to argue against any scripture that deals with hell.

"Go and sin NO more ...[text shortened]... wants separation of the races? It's in there.
You want a God that supports slavery? It's in there.

@thinkofone said
How exactly have I changed the text?

Like I said, "...given the caliber of the posters on this forum...".

@thinkofone said
C3 had it pegged from the beginning:
[quote]If someone likes what a specific verse or verses say, it's literal.

If someone dislikes the message, then they either dismiss it, or convince themselves it's a metaphor.

In your case Dive, you do not want to believe in hell, so you will continue to argue against any scripture that deals with hell.

"Go and sin NO more ...[text shortened]... wants separation of the races? It's in there.
You want a God that supports slavery? It's in there.

@kellyjay said
The truth remains the truth no matter how people take it to suit themselves, they can change the meaning of clear text into things that they perfer over what is written.

@fmf said
And yet you get into all manner of self-caused scapes and tangles and stonewallings and deflection-a-thons over your own preferred interpretation of "the meaning of clear text".

@kellyjay said
I don’t ignore text, neither do I dismiss text by claiming it doesn’t say what it says. I don’t change the text into something it doesn’t say to pervert the text.

@fmf said
It's all about interpretation, yours and everyone else's. You trying pass off yours as anything other than just another interpretation doesn't work.

@kellyjay said
Well examples are required to show what you are talking about.

@fmf said
They arise constantly. You get confronted. You do what you do. Let's wait for the next instance.

@kellyjay said
So no examples you are going to look for something to accuse me of something.

@fmf said
Plenty of examples. Every time you were accused of it, it was an example of you being accused of it. But as I said, let's wait for the next instance.

@chaney3 said
Indeed.
This thread is a classic example of interpreting the bible to fit one's own ideal of how things should be, and shouldn't be.

If you agree, it's literal.
If you disagree, it's either a metaphor, or could not possibly be endorsed by Jesus.

Maybe that's why Christianity has hundreds of denominations.

@kellyjay said
The truth remains the truth no matter how people take it to suit themselves, they can change the meaning of clear text into things that they perfer over what is written. They can say this is good text, that isn’t, always making the Word suit what they like over what the Word says. The division is due to people’s rejection of truth, it isn’t because the truth is broken.

@kellyjay said
Well examples are required to show what you are talking about.

@divegeester

btw it's possible to make perfectly fine metaphors out of literal stuff and vice versa from the bible ...
But lets just focus on the thread as you have put it. You drive a fine point.