How can literalism and faith co-exist?
Where do ‘Bible-believing’ Christians get their confidence in literalism? How can it not be arrogance?
The Bible says ‘the letter kills but the spirit gives life.’
Aren’t things like scripture, faith and understanding about humility and darkness? The exact opposite of supposedly concrete facts? Facts which are like sand….
Isn’t the lesson of scripture that interior things are the only reality, the only important things?
Isn’t God represented by a cloud of darkness? Isn’t his light blinding? Who can see his face? Are we supposed to speak his name? Can it be spoken? Doesn’t his name stand for that which can’t be spoken?
Isn’t understanding/faith a process? The exact opposite of a fact?
If scripture can keep giving and can never be fully understood…if one can always grow thru scripture…how can fundamentalists like I just heard on TV talk about ‘the clear word of scripture’?
Doesn’t what scripture means to a person depend on that person’s level of understanding? Doesn’t it always push one? If so how can it EVER be clear?
Isn’t a main lesson of the New Testament that one has to keep resisting the tempation to think one understands? I.e., Israel is a state of mind, not a place—despite our natural tendency to think of it only in terms of race and such. —
