Alright OP. I do not know who you are, but it seems to me that you could have one of three temperments:
1) You align yourself closely or directly with radical disgraces like the Westboro Church
2) You do not align yourself with an extremist Christian sect, but still consider yourself some other type of Christian
3) You are not a Christian--just genuinely curious about Biblical interpretations.
Please follow this cool link about interpreting the Bible as the literal word of God, this is only two pages long and may shed some light (and hopefully make you laugh): http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/drlaura.asp
The point is, if you take the whole Bible literally, you're going to be doing a lot of outrageous, illogical, cruel, selfish, and disgusting things to yourself and other people. So, in answer to your question, yes--the Westboro "church" do interpret the Bible more literally than most other Christian sects.
To elaborate more, if you continue your search of Biblical interpretations, you are going to find a lot of religions that only accept either the Old or New Testament, Both (and take it all literally, like Westboro), or Both (and act progressively, like good samaritans).
On a personal note, my point is this: I am a Christian. I do not believe gays should be kept from marriage, that Christ is the only way to redemption, or that I should belittle others for their faiths if they are not Christian. Also, women weren't made from ribs. God and science can work together.
I'm not here for a debate. When it comes to interpreting the Bible though, it seems to me like you can go one of three ways:
1) Be a good samaritan. Praise God. Repeat. Leave it at that.
2) Take it all literally and be a conflicted, neurotic walking mess.
3) Use it to justify evil.
The "good" book fortunately has several verses that seem to lay on the hippy gospel of Love pretty thickly, and other verses that seem like sociopolitical soapboxes and plain old discomfort and hatred.
Thanks for the link loved the letter and I am the third a non Christian who is genuinely interested in the bible, and kudos to your healthy Christianity prefer it to scathing atheism even though I am not even remotely christian
Are the westboro baptist really wrong about their interpretation of th
← View full post
Alright OP. I do not know who you are, but it seems to me that you could have one of three temperments:
1) You align yourself closely or directly with radical disgraces like the Westboro Church
2) You do not align yourself with an extremist Christian sect, but still consider yourself some other type of Christian
3) You are not a Christian--just genuinely curious about Biblical interpretations.
Please follow this cool link about interpreting the Bible as the literal word of God, this is only two pages long and may shed some light (and hopefully make you laugh): http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/drlaura.asp
The point is, if you take the whole Bible literally, you're going to be doing a lot of outrageous, illogical, cruel, selfish, and disgusting things to yourself and other people. So, in answer to your question, yes--the Westboro "church" do interpret the Bible more literally than most other Christian sects.
To elaborate more, if you continue your search of Biblical interpretations, you are going to find a lot of religions that only accept either the Old or New Testament, Both (and take it all literally, like Westboro), or Both (and act progressively, like good samaritans).
On a personal note, my point is this: I am a Christian. I do not believe gays should be kept from marriage, that Christ is the only way to redemption, or that I should belittle others for their faiths if they are not Christian. Also, women weren't made from ribs. God and science can work together.
I'm not here for a debate. When it comes to interpreting the Bible though, it seems to me like you can go one of three ways:
1) Be a good samaritan. Praise God. Repeat. Leave it at that.
2) Take it all literally and be a conflicted, neurotic walking mess.
3) Use it to justify evil.
The "good" book fortunately has several verses that seem to lay on the hippy gospel of Love pretty thickly, and other verses that seem like sociopolitical soapboxes and plain old discomfort and hatred.
--
Anonymous Post Author
11 years ago
|
pl
Comment Hidden (
show
)
Report
0
0
Thanks for the link loved the letter and I am the third a non Christian who is genuinely interested in the bible, and kudos to your healthy Christianity prefer it to scathing atheism even though I am not even remotely christian