Question for non-literalist Christians

@fmf said
What?

Are the reply’s in the other thread really the best you can do. Their not worth my time to go back and answer.

@mike69 said
Are the reply’s in the other thread really the best you can do. Their not worth my time to go back and answer.

Then so be it.

-Removed-

This doesn’t surprise me of you it’s ok. Tell me what you actually see for this religious zealot title and let’s talk about it.

@suzianne said
Yet you still, after all those years, don't take dissent very well, to the point of endlessly grilling people who disagree with you. That's about ALL you do here.

Matthew 10:14

@vivify said
Where do you draw the line on what is literal or not?

Non-literalist Christians agree that the 6-day creation or Global Flood is not literal, and some Christians would even say hell is not literal because God is loving and wouldn't do that.

But by this same logic, couldn't God himself be non-literal? Maybe God is just an allegory of the concept of morality and there ...[text shortened]... ry are just allegories, how do you justify that the existence of God himself isn't just an allegory?

When in normal conversation you have with other people how do you tell the difference between literal meanings, metaphor, simile, and other human ways of speaking and sharing information? I would also add I believe every single person takes pieces of the Bible literally other parts as metaphors, similies, visions and dreams. We may disagree with what parts are what but the fact is we all take some parts literally.

@kellyjay said
Matthew 10:14

Yes.

(She said, already laughing at the children coming to mock her.)

@kellyjay said
Matthew 10:14

Matt. 7:3.

@moonbus said
Matt. 7:3.

Good question, you ever apply that to yourself?

-Removed-

Note that I'm already laughing at you.

AT you, not with you.

And it's actually talking about how to deal with those who refuse to hear. But that wouldn't fit your mocking agenda. (Keep in mind I foretold your mocking.)

@kellyjay said
Good question, you ever apply that to yourself?

You evidently think I should, which is exactly what Matt. 7:3 is all about.