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1 | How can we tell figurative from literal? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 19606 | ||
Sir Pent The Bible must be taken literally unless the text itself shows it is speaking figuratively by using metaphors, allegories and other such figures of speech. Or unless a literal interpretation would violate common sense or contradicts scripture in other places. One of the biggest problems I see in scripture interpretation today is we are too quick to apply our ideas to the scripture rather than studying to find the real meaning. Many times this results in a surface or feasible explanation but at the cost of the actual or more in-depth meaning. Also many men rather than study on their own will repeat other men’s teachings on the passage. By doing this, errors are often repeated. I think this is one of the reasons we have so many people quoting and holding to promises made only to Israel. It sounded good and they never looked to see what it meant in context. |
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2 | How can we tell figurative from literal? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 19611 | ||
Contrary View, Scripture ......................... Dear EdB, Thanks for your response, but would you mind clarifying some of your ideas a little more. You said, "The Bible must be taken literally unless the text itself shows it is speaking figuratively by using metaphors, allegories and other such figures of speech." What is a consistent objective way to tell that? For instance you might suggest that anytime someone says, "such and such is LIKE", that it is metaphorical. Or you might know of a book of common figures of speech in ancient Hebrew or Greek. You also say, "Or unless a literal interpretation would violate common sense". I would submit that there are many Bible passages that violate common sense, yet I believe to be literal. Some examples are: the Creation story of making a person out of dirt, or Baalam's donkey talking, or Jesus being born of a virgin, or Jesus comming back to life after being dead for part of 3 days. As you can see, there needs to be a better method of determining the literal from the figurative. I appreciate your help in finding one. |
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3 | How can we tell figurative from literal? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 19633 | ||
Sir Pent Your right after I went to bed I laid there and thought about what I had wrote, my definition left a lot to be desired. While it is all true, the problem remains of how to define such. Your right making a person out of dirt does violate common sense yet we know that is exactly what happened. Or the Sun going backwards or ... the list goes on. Let me ponder this and I will get back. EdB |
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