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Originally Posted by Og  I follow christ's religion, not the religion of christ. If you boil it down to being literally believing in god, then you MUST literally believe in the literal garden of eden. Without the garden of eden being literal, the act of jesus on the cross doesn't make any sense as anything but metaphorical as well. You have to be a young earth creationist to be a true christian if it's about "believing that jesus is the literal son of some deity named yaweh"... Without the literal original sin, the literal redemption on the cross doesn't make any sense. |
Yes, yes, yes. We have absurds of the Bible. Now what do we do with this ? Mhh ... oh, we employ theologians(you're a very good one) and turn these stupidities into a set of metaphores and allegories so that reasonable thinking people like you could accept it and for stupid masses we leave literal interpretation. That methaphorically transformed Christianity looks almost like grown up buddhism and is almost unrecognizable for overwhelming majority of Christians who literally believe in God as the creator of the universe and Jesus' torment on the cross and consider it to be the core of Christianity.
That methaphorical transformation of Christianity is nothing but conscious effort to turn it into something more reasonable. You pick up bits of the Bible and interprete it in the way that makes it acceptable for you, but in fact that's not an interpretation anymore, that's an obvious conversion and not to see it is intelectual dishonesty.
You seem to say that by any reference(less or more methaphorical) to the Bible you can call yourself a Christian. Well, you're in the sense, but in the sense you may call yourself anything you like
For me you're an atheist undercover, a member of the fifth column of Christianity which is about to bring about its end
