 Comments for The Way Forward I edited this comment because I got in a hurry and used the wrong verse
Let me illustrate how incoherent your method of interpretation is.
You think the earth was created in 6 literal days, right?
OK, explain this verse using your literalistic method of interpretation:
God speaking to Adam said,
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Gen 2:17)
There’s that word day again. Did Adam die as soon as he ate from the tree? Remember, according to you, a day is a literal 24 hour period. According to the Bible, “And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.” So Adam didn’t die on the very day he ate the fruit. He died centuries later.
Let me give you another example. Jesus said in John 2:18-20
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
The Jason’s of Jesus’ day, the literalists, thought Jesus was talking about the Temple. After all, it is what he said, right?
But the next verse makes it clear that Jesus was speaking metaphorically “But he spake of the temple of his body.” (John 2:20)
What say ye, Jason?
And why you are are it, please explain how the author of John knew Jesus meant his body since he was not an eyewitness to the events he recorded? Most scholars think the gospel of John was written at the end of the first century, 60-70 years after the death of Jesus. And let me bring this back around to Matthew 24 and what many fundamentalist Christians think is Jesus predicting the destruction of the Temple. How is it a prediction, when it is likely that Matthew was written AFTER the Temple was destroyed in AD 70?
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