Do You Think The Bible is Literal or Allegorical

[Caramello]

I've just read Christy's post and I would like to apologise if I have offended anyone by the Sunday school reference.

When I was at home, I learnt about Catholicism through the books that we read about our faith, and by Sunday school. Sunday school was taught in years of age and by a teacher of the faith. I enjoyed it (although again I did challenge someone who spelt God with a small g )

I found that scripture was helpful in primary school, but less helpful in High school. Mainly due to the amount of time available, as well as priests that didn't want to listen to my questions (and I did ask a lot! )

My reference to the scripture in High school now was that if I was still Catholic, I would feel very uneasy about my children being taught by a group that was not from a traditional Christian church. I would rather send them to a Catholic school.

I am also coming from the point of view of a teacher, which is why I said it would be hard to teach both evolution and creationism in a public school. Especially when there are other religions that have different explanations.

As you know, I come from a Catholic background and I like exploring aspects of this faith, just to clarify my own thought. I had not meant to upset anyone else and if I have I'm sorry.

And BW, I definitely do not see you as:

a brain-washed fundamentalist who believes all that she is fed

Anyone that does needs to have a long, hard look at themselves!

[butterfly_warrior]

Thanks, Gargy. Like Bath, I found a lot of posts were putting me on the defensive (not yours!), and I woke up with my cranky pants on this morning... I found it really upsetting that I felt I needed to justify and explain my beliefs in a Christian area of the forum. Not so cranky now, but I did find some posts were making me feel that's the way I was being seen.

TheBear, I've never found any claims in the Bible about a flat earth - do you have references for those? Also, I've always been under the impression that the vast majority of churches believed the same way mine does - that the Bible is the word of God and is literal truth... I've never thought of the Baptist church as anything other than mainstream.

BW

[christy]

BW I felt the same, thats why I said something

I've never heard before of the bible saying the world was flat?

[TheBear]

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[sushee]

This thread has been created to split off-topic discussion from a thread in the Christianity forum. I have moved the discussion out of the Christianity forum out of respect to those of Christian faith who may find the assertions made in some of these posts to be offensive.

Might I also take the opportunity to point out that the moderators of this forum take very seriously the importance of respect for others' religions and beliefs. Please be mindful of this when posting, and especially with regards to WHERE you're posting.

[TheBear]

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[Trillian]

The issue that the Moderating team had is that you were actively trying to disprove that creation was a valid thing, something that we wont tolerate in any forum. We wouldn't tolerate someone posting in the Breastfeeding forums to go and use formula, nor would we tolerate someone going in to the Formula feeding forum to tell everyone to breastfeed. This is no different. The Christianity forum was not a suitable area for your posts, so they were moved here. If there are any further issues from this, please contact a Moderator directly. Thank you.