"There are many reasons I am not a “biblical literalist,” but one of the major ones is that it is just so young and unbiblical. The early Christians, Jews, and thus the authors and compilers of the Bible saw the Bible with nuance. Allegorical, ethical, and historical/literal interpretations were all used and often overlapped. Biblical literalism, rather than being conservative, originated within the last 150 years as the “conservatives” adopted Enlightenment concepts on textual interpretation."
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Kevin Daugherty (via gospelofthekingdom)
PREACH. Literalism is reductionist. It robs us of much of the Bible.
(via sacredsecularity)
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