(If it's using symbolism and metaphor then it can't be literal. )
Sure it can. If you do not take the symbolism and metaphor literally, then you have no starting point for using the Word to give testimony to the Word.
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So, Zaac. When someone says, "LMAO" after reading one of your posts, do you literally believe their ass has fallen off from laughing?
Wait, so are these passages literally metaphorical or symbolic, or are they metaphorically literal?
Literally metaphorical passages would be ones that are explicitly (literally) not to be taken literally (metaphorical).
Metaphorically literal passages would be ones that are not literally (metaphorically) meant to be taken as explicitly true (literal).
So which ever way you cut it I guess Zaac is saying that the bible isn't actually true.
I think this guy is literally a metaphor for stupidity. "What a Zaac!" people will say, and be understood.
Wait, so are these passages literally metaphorical or symbolic, or are they metaphorically literal?
Literally metaphorical passages would be ones that are explicitly (literally) not to be taken literally (metaphorical).
Metaphorically literal passages would be ones that are not literally (metaphorically) meant to be taken as explicitly true (literal).
Uuurgh, Igor not understand.
Well, in a way I can undestand his point. All letters are symbols for sounds, which might be where his "using the Word to give testimony to the Word" comes from.
That said, there is , of course, still a difference between literal and metaphorical.
Now, I enjoy my dose of random stupidity now and then--heck, I enjoy watching Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo --but this is just beyond me. Any more ridiculous and that sentence could be straight from CNN or Fox News.
Dear Zaac; I don't understand. What are parables then? Take for example the Wise and Foolish Virgins, literal or symbolic? Were they literally virgins, as proven by a medical exam, or were they merely symbolic virgins ( hadn't been caught and stoned to death)? Or, was it literally symbolic of the high cost of lamp oil, or the metaphoric unreliability of bridegrooms coming late to their own weddings? Please reply at your earliest convenience. Thank You, Nekhbet
Zaac, you don't understand what symbolism and metaphor are. That which is symbolic or metaphoric is, by definition, NOT to be taken literally.
"If you do not take the symbolism and metaphor literally, then you have no starting point for using the Word to give testimony to the Word."
Ab-so-lut-ly Keeee-rect! Give the man a Seee-gar! There is no starting point in that absolutely circular pile of happy horse manure you call religion and I call dogma! This is the crap that breaks literalist's brains. The Bible is inerrent, yet contains contradictions and ambiguity! Oh... no it doesn't! Tra-la-la, tra-la-la hey nonny nonny!
Zaac, your brain is dead. Stop trying to think.
so... if you don't take metaphor and symbolism (man, some people... dictionaries just fly right over their heads...) LITERALLY, which is the opposite of how they should, by definition, be taken, you have no starting point for using "the Word" (which version) to give testimony to "the Word"?
Almost there... someone mind giving him one last helpful push into reality?
His contention appears to be that the Bible says that Jesus literally told these metaphorical parables to people.
It's a stupid distinction, and crosses beyond pedantry into something that doesn't even have the force of technical/historical correctness.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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