tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post7761896813567218828..comments2024-03-04T05:55:35.225-05:00Comments on Vital Remnants: What is Poetry? Answers on the ApocalypseMartin Cothranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-56689886396698709492011-07-02T23:56:03.382-04:002011-07-02T23:56:03.382-04:00> Obviously some passages are meant literally a...> Obviously some passages are meant literally and some not.<br /><br />Well... Actually, I don't know how obvious the methodology is, by which we determine that some passages are intended to be literally interpreted and others are not.<br /><br />Some of the obviousness may be provided by a bit of dogma.<br /><br />> They obviously interpreted him literally and he did nothing to Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-92113013131857378552011-07-02T23:30:56.957-04:002011-07-02T23:30:56.957-04:00Lee,
Obviously some passages are meant literally ...Lee,<br /><br />Obviously some passages are meant literally and some not. <br /><br />When Jesus says that we should "eat his flesh" and "drink his blood" in John 6, it is recorded that, as a result, many of his disciples left because of it. They obviously interpreted him literally and he did nothing to disabuse them of that notion. And in his conversation with his disciples Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-72957206921666001042011-07-02T19:05:43.571-04:002011-07-02T19:05:43.571-04:00I guess what I'm saying is that transubstantia...I guess what I'm saying is that transubstantiation is one of those things where the Protestants aren't the ones applying a literal interpretation.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-79144156733438114692011-07-02T18:43:16.579-04:002011-07-02T18:43:16.579-04:00> I wasn't chuckling at Protestants at all,...> I wasn't chuckling at Protestants at all, although I think Protestants do tend much more to look at things univocally.<br /><br />When Jesus said to his disciples, "This is my body, take and eat in remembrance of me," was he being too literal?Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-26143268835965222642011-05-27T10:17:39.467-04:002011-05-27T10:17:39.467-04:00http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2011/05/2...http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2011/05/27/feedback-circular-reasoning<br /><br />Off topic, but any comment?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-57862105114919427022011-05-27T01:11:22.290-04:002011-05-27T01:11:22.290-04:00Lee,
I wasn't chuckling at Protestants at all...Lee,<br /><br />I wasn't chuckling at Protestants at all, although I think Protestants do tend much more to look at things univocally.<br /><br />Also, even sci-fi and the Dune books are on the poetic side of the ledger, since they are imaginative works of the fiction. The "poetic" broadly speaking includes imaginative fiction.<br /><br />In addition, I wasn't saying that Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-81469193134228209652011-05-26T19:48:22.777-04:002011-05-26T19:48:22.777-04:00Fine, I admit that my literary training is substan...Fine, I admit that my literary training is substandard. But I got As in my English classes in public school, so there was some complicity in arriving at this low level of achievement.<br /><br />And I don't think we can blame recent trends in education, since I'm pretty sure I'm older than you are, Martin.<br /><br />But the feminization of public schools even in my day succeeded in Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.com