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How much of the Bible (New Testament) do you belief to be literally true?
100% 3 (42.9%)
90% 0 (0%)
80% 0 (0%)
70% 2 (28.6%)
60% 0 (0%)
50% 0 (0%)
40% 0 (0%)
30% 0 (0%)
20% 0 (0%)
10% 1 (14.3%)
0% 1 (14.3%)
Total Votes: 7
How much of the Bible (NT) is literally true?; New Testament
Topic Started: Oct 29 2005, 07:51 PM (269 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Please give your best estimate on how much of the Bible (New Testament) you belief to be true.

Please consider voting also on the companion poll for the Old Testament: http://s10.invisionfree.com/The_New_Coffee...?showtopic=3989

Thanks.
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JBryan
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I am the grey one
Same as the other thread.
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Nina
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I think it's a legitimate question.

You may disagree with the granularity of the poll, but that's not really the point.

Oh sorry, it's the principle.

Exactly what principle is that?
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***musical princess***
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Ah crap.

I didn't realsie one was NT and the other was OT. I thought it was just a double post so i voted exactly the same as the other one. Damn!

:doh:

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Dewey
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Well, first you have to distinguish between "true," and "fact."

Then, you have to realize that the NT is not only "histories," or event-stories found in the New Testament, like the gospels and Acts; but it is also "wisdom" literature, like most all of the writings found in the epistles, and prophetic writings like Revelation. Are you talking only about the "historical" writing, or the NT as a whole; how should the percentage be considered?

And before you try to decide how much of the NT is "literally true," you need to determine just what the entire message of the NT, as it unfolds continually through all of the writings, actually is, before you can weigh its truthfulness.

To me, the message of the New Testament is this: that the Judeo-Christian God YHWH is not a cold, impersonal God that has little to do with the events occurring in creation, or in our own lives, like most pagan deities. That, completely to the contrary, God cares very much about our own condition - so much so that in order to provide a way to mend the rift in the relationship between humankind and God, God comes to earth as one of us - not like some half-God, half-man hybrid like those sometimes read about as the result of horny pagan gods sexually cavorting with mortal women, but rather, as One both fully God and fully man. This God cares for us so much that in order to renew the covenant made between him and us, he is willing to completely subordinate his own infinitude and walk among us, feeling the same joys, sorrows, hunger, poverty, excitement, aspirations, that we creatures feel, in the same way that we experience them in our human bodies and minds. That God wants our legitimate worship, which goes beyond merely carrying out ritual; that merely performing rituals thinking that's the extent of our "debt" to God, and then living in ways that God says is wrong, is offensive to God. That he knows our suffering and our temptations, because he has walked among us and has similarly suffered and been tempted. That if we understand this and live according to the covenant that God has established with us, then we should have great joy, because we know that no matter what day-to-day life throws at us, that ultimately, God is in control, is looking out for us, and loves us, and is continually reaching out to us.

Wait... this is sounding kind of familiar....
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