Quote (thesnipa @ Mar 3 2023 01:23pm)

its all a figure of speech, except the bears, god really hated those kids, but also loves every unborn serial killer and doesnt want them aborted.

Quote (addone @ Feb 24 2023 04:12pm)

The bible sounds like it was written solely by humans in an ignorant, superstitious, and cruel age.

Quote (Jupe @ Feb 24 2023 05:28pm)

more or less mentally ill than believing in a sky wizard?

Quote (thesnipa @ Mar 3 2023 12:51pm)

to be fair, sheep are absolute assholes.

Quote (addone @ Mar 4 2023 01:12am)

A yes everything that has been disproven is now considered a figure of speech well how convinient indeed.
Funny how to Christians pre irrefutable proof came along, zealously believed the earth was flat and that the sun revolved around the earth? So much so that they would imprison and even put you to death if you disagreed with them.

It's hilarious that most people today consider the bible an allegorical morality tale rather than literal facts. If it's a figure of speech then it's not facts or truth by definition it's a rhetorical language devised to persuade with emotion and superstition rather than facts and data. Using amorphous language like the bible you can make it mean anything and everything you want it to be. You can't prove it or disprove it it's just a word salad of feelings and wild thoughts.

Did Jesus walk on water or was it a figure of speech? Did actual demons exist or was it a figure of speech for people acting possessed? Did God really send down 2 bears to maul 42 children or was it a moral story on respecting your elders? Did jonah really survive inside of a fish for 3 days? Or was it a typical bed time story on how you cannot outrun a God?

Quote (MildSambal @ Mar 3 2023 04:03am)

The Bible doesn’t say anything about the sun revolving around the earth or the earth revolving around the sun. The language does seem to indicate more that the sun moves around the earth and rises and sets, but that is how it appears to people. Doesn’t have to mean it literally. People still say the sun rises and sets. Even weather forecast people. We know it doesn’t. We are not pretending it does. It is a figure of speech, or a way of talking. It isn’t literal. Therefore, we shouldn’t insist that the Bible be literal about everything either. Instead the writers used the language and perspective people understood. Our ability to fully conceptualize trivial matters such as infinity or dark matter, in the grand scheme of God and the vastness of the universe it really is silly to bring up figurative language as your gotcha.

Quote (MildSambal @ Mar 3 2023 04:11am)

Human life happens at conception and eventually decays from the material world at the time of death. The soul exists before and after those events.

Quote (Jupe @ Mar 3 2023 05:18am)

:lol:
Let's take things literal when it's convenient, and not when it isn't.

Quote (addone @ Mar 3 2023 10:12am)

A yes everything that has been disproven is now considered a figure of speech well how convinient indeed.
Funny how to Christians pre irrefutable proof came along, zealously believed the earth was flat and that the sun revolved around the earth? So much so that they would imprison and even put you to death if you disagreed with them.

It's hilarious that most people today consider the bible an allegorical morality tale rather than literal facts. If it's a figure of speech then it's not facts or truth by definition it's a rhetorical language devised to persuade with emotion and superstition rather than facts and data. Using amorphous language like the bible you can make it mean anything and everything you want it to be. You can't prove it or disprove it it's just a word salad of feelings and wild thoughts.

Did Jesus walk on water or was it a figure of speech? Did actual demons exist or was it a figure of speech for people acting possessed? Did God really send down 2 bears to maul 42 children or was it a moral story on respecting your elders? Did jonah really survive inside of a fish for 3 days? Or was it a typical bed time story on how you cannot outrun a God?

Quote (EndlessSky @ Mar 3 2023 04:55pm)

probably not the weirdest thing I believe in.

Quote (MildSambal @ Mar 4 2023 12:05pm)

Most people today consider the Bible as allegorical, except when trying to disprove it then it's scrutinized as literal? Maybe you should review your high school English material, or let me know when figures of speech in literature are taken at face value.

Quote (TiStuff @ Mar 4 2023 02:12pm)

i have no problem with this statement



take thing literal when its literal........
do you deny "figure of speech" isnt commonly used in language?



it would be reasonable to accept explanations as "figures of speech" are commonly understood. except it seems the ear wiggling clown in this thread.
now i know certain people in this thread haters of truth will disdain the following. but they will be exposed anyway

What are the 8 kinds of figure of speech?
Uses of figures of speech
Many figures of speech contain metaphors, idioms, similes, ironies, antithesis, alliterations, personifications, and paradoxes.Jan 17, 2023

What are the 12 types of figure of speech?
What is the 12 figure of speech? Some common figures of speech are alliteration, anaphora, antimetabole, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, hyperbole, irony, metonymy, onomatopoeia, paradox, personification, pun, simile, synecdoche, and understatement.

could post more and it gets more complex but the point is made.
moving forward? consider making proper arguments doesnt mean being argumentative.