So the bible is to be taken metaphorically? that’s what Protestants say about the words of Consecration. And that’s what JW say when asked about the passages in John referring to the divinity of Jesus. And that is similar to what Orthodox say when asked about the promises that Jesus gave to Peter. They will say that it does not imply papal infallibility. That is what an atheist might say about the Resurrection. Also homosexuals will not take literally the passages in the Old Testament condemning homosexual activity.
You did see my examples right?
So I would say as it follows we could choose to take my overly literal examples and overly metaphor them etc.
So all speech period can be used negatively. The crux in truth is I have met few who deny strict morality from the bible like for example homosexuality who don’t give human indicators during their speech patterns.
Something akin to:
“How can you say being gay is okay per Christianity”
“Well it has to be …Umm yeah like I want it to be and like umm ummm umm well God loves me so what I want is okay and that stuff isn’t right”
call that a mixture of accurate speech mixed with representative forms of facial expressions and sinking body language. The body is rarely as skilled at denial as the mind
Anyway, if not for a church set forth by Jesus than what the heck? let us all just decide to go overly literal or overly metaphorical!!! do our own thing.
The issue is we can use denial to change the meaning of almost any sentence to fit our bill.
I almost fell over when I realized the passage about Demons having faith and works being necessary for salvation was not only quoted on a protestant radio station, but was IN the protestant BIBLE…
They just say that Luther said it isn’t a good part of the bible…ummmmm okay… EVEN the councils and leaders of the protestants could not hide the truth from themselves, they could have easily just removed the book from the bible… But I say maybe as much as they are allowed denial the Holy Spirit maintains that minimum truths must be available?
We need to use common sense… Simply by the examples I set forth in my earlier post we can use mental tricks and denial at any turn. But only if we can free ourselves of our selfish need for denial can we just go with intended meaning and not whatever we want to twist. If we struggle with this, then there is the church founded by Jesus… but denial can make that sound untrue.
Honestly if you really don’t like the Pope thing, at least go Orthodox… I believe that they are closely guided still by the divine
