[ketsu]

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The heresy of literalism as such is a modern, post-scientific phenomenon. Its beginnings can be traced in seventeenth-century Protestant orthodoxy, but it bloomed with twentieth-century Fundamentalism, when the modern world fully embraced the dynamic power of natural science. Scientific method crucially altered the Western mind. After Descartes we became principled skeptics, doubting in order to find out the truth. The notion stole into the religious mind that biblical narratives make proposals that only appear to compete with testable scientific findings (to test our faith) while ultimately, if miraculously, conforming to scientific truth.

http://people.cas.sc.edu/lewiske/heresy.html

[doc1019]

So, I’m a heretic for believing in the Word of God? Strange concept.

[driftdiver]

‘The heresy of literalism as such is a modern”

As opposed to the heresy of selective interpretation? Hogwash