[Vision2020] Jesus did NOT "not say it" 2

[Taro Tanaka]

I can agree that 1) we should read the Bible according to a biblical 
hermeneutic, and 2) we shouldn't pick and choose among the rules/guidelines 
that we recognize as authoritative (as you seem to be doing). Even where the 
Bible gives us guidelines (which it does in places, along with 
unequivocating commendments in other places), following the guidelines is 
wisdom, and wisdom is never optional but rather obligatory.

-- Princess Sushitushi

Joe Campbell <joekc at adelphia.net> wrote:
[[ By a "literal, fundamentalist interpretation of biblical passages" I mean 
an interpretation which treats the Bible as a rule book instead of a guide 
book, one that continually harps on a small number of passages condemning 
"homosexuality" yet ignores the many that suggest that we should love thy 
neighbor as thyself. ]]

>---- Taro Tanaka <taro_tanaka at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Joe Campbell <joekc at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> >But it just doesn't follow from this that one should take a literal,
> >fundamentalist interpretation of all Biblical passages.
>
>Joe, if I knew what constitutes a "literal, fundamentalist interpretation 
>of
>biblical passages," I might be able to say whether I agree or disagree with
>what you wrote.
>
>-- Princess Sushitushi

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