William T Goodall wrote:
>> No, all lies are still evil.
I replied:
> Fiction is a form of creative lying (fictional stories are, by definition,
> not true, and anything not true must be a lie, right?). So is fiction evil?
William responded:
Not all Christians are fundamentalists who insist on the literal truth of the Bible. Many Christians interpret most of the stories in the bible as parable and metaphor.Lie - a false statement made with the intention of deceiving: anything misleading or of the nature of imposture.Fiction doesn't pretend to be true, and therefore isn't a lie.
Therefore, for those people, the Bible doesn't lie.
And if it turns out that portions of the New Testament are literal truth (portions, because it can't *all* be true -- it contradicts itself), then the Bible doesn't lie.
The only people for whom the Bible is a lie are the people who insist that it is literal truth, and those fundamentalists are obviously misled anyway, because the Bible can't *possibly* all be literal truth, as evidenced by the contradictions I mentioned above.
If you take issue with fundamentalists, I'm right there with you 100%. If you take issue with all Christians because the Bible is not 100% literal truth, then you are making a straw man arguement.
Reggie Bautista
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