One reason I cannot be other than Catholic (if not Roman Catholic) is that the foundations of the faith are passed on as stories. We hear the stories before we read the Bible, and in fact during the time of my Roman Catholic childhood (roughly 1952-1966) we didn't read the Bible at all because it was not encouraged. That cuts two ways: We missed out to some extent, but then again, we received the stories as stories and were not encouraged to cut the focus down to one or two individual verses, which can radically alter the meaning of the verses quoted.
The Bible was not intended to be a propositional document. It is a collection of stories, within which lie myths of awesome power. It is my view that taking the resolution down past the story level blurs out the greater truths and allows people to see whatever they want in it, which is the same as saying that there's essentially nothing there at all.
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Date: 2008-03-21 03:21 am (UTC)The Bible was not intended to be a propositional document. It is a collection of stories, within which lie myths of awesome power. It is my view that taking the resolution down past the story level blurs out the greater truths and allows people to see whatever they want in it, which is the same as saying that there's essentially nothing there at all.