How to Tell Whether a Bible Verse is a Metaphor December 22, 2013

How to Tell Whether a Bible Verse is a Metaphor

By Terry Firma
December 22, 2013

A handy flowchart:

(via Iranian Atheist/Agnostic Movement)

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  • Marie Alexander

    IKR!!! EVERY religious person does that…

  • the moother

    This here, ladies and gentlemen, is parsimony at work.

  • Daniel Webb

    But this won’t work from the perspective of a science denier. No amount of debunking can change the literal word of god in genesis!

  • idahogie

    I think the output of “Not quite” needs to feed into the second question about whether it should be followed. To be the Word of God, it has to be both not completely falsified AND something the Christian wants to follow.

  • El Nerdo Loco

    But what if something has been completely debunked by science, but you still want to believe in it? Oh, right… Creationism.

  • A3Kr0n

    How can you argue with logic like that?

  • Whitney Currie

    Wait, what about the heavy drinking needed to reconcile conflicting instructions in said holy work? Dang it! That’s where the communion wine comes in! Can’t leave that out!

  • jcchurch

    Oh look. It’s hermeneutics.

  • lol

  • For those who do not understand that the literal word of God is just a metaphor for stubborn refusal to admit ignorance, here is a different perspective.

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  • *cough* anti-vaxx