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The Bible – a question of interpretation?
I’ve said I don’t believe the Bible to be perfect or inerrant in the ways Christians have often assumed. But even if it were somehow perfect in its original form (whatever that is), we can never actually access that original … Continue reading
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Tagged allegory, Bible, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, interpretation, literalism, Scripture, translation
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