Tag: Literalism

• The things that you’re liable to read in the Bible …

  Apparently, there are still some people who believe that the Earth is flat and, presumably, at least some of them are not joking. Equally unreal (at least to me) is that there are also people who believe the entire Bible to be literally true and historically accurate, all without errors of any kind. It’s unquestionably…

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  16th Feb 2023

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, History, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Religion, Science

  Bible, Earth, Fundamentalism, God, Hebrew Bible, Israeiites, Joshua, Literalism, National Epic, Sun God

• Unconditional Love (i)

  There was a time when I was a conservative evangelical minister, fervently believing in the complete historicity and literal factuality of the Gospels, and accepting therefore the historical, traditional, orthodox, Christian interpretation of them. I don’t regret that, because it means that I know about this way of seeing things – I’ve been there –…

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  5th Sep 2022

  Buddhism, Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Archetypes, Buddhism, Christianity, Gospels, Jesus, John Powell, Literalism, Myth, Salvador Dali, Unconditional Love