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Like the tower of babel ?
Yep.
The worldly schools love the worldly views.
They used one that acted like a text book. Each chapter had an introduction, the biblical text (NIV) and a chapter test.
Because a fiction genre is not part of the Bible. Subjective interpretations are valid such as God not having wings, etc. The creation story is not subjective in my opinion since I still believe that God is responsible for all of creation. Again, like any other book the text is interpreted based on context, the authors meaning, and literary structure. There are also literary devices to consider.
That is a popular and accepted use of the word "interpretation(s)" , but in truth no interpretation (of the Bible) is needed, per se. For example (poor example perhaps), God does have wings, and legs, and thighs, hahaha
Neither.
So you read a sentence in a book what is your expectation? Is it literal or not? Do you read the sentence literally?
How do you know?
So do many people who have favored a non-literal interpretation over the last couple of thousand years.
Correct.
Neither one. You have to read the book first.
I don't think objective/subjective is a meaningful way to describe books.
Because 2 Timothy 3: 16-17 would not make any sense if the Bible was fiction.
Yep which it why I qualified my statement with “in my opinion”.
Not really. Do you read the words literally or not?
Aesop's fables are fiction and they are "useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness".
I am not going to cover Bible apologetics here. If you don’t like the terms objective and subjective you could substitute the terms with literal and non literal. The point is that anything that you read you start with reading each word literally and then interpret whether the sentence, paragraph, chapter, or book had a literal or non literal meaning.
As I stated in my last post I am not going to discuss Bible apologetics here.
Sometimes I might have hope at least for truth, though rarely have expectations of truth.
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."
Yes, I read it word by word, but I don't think that's what you mean.
I also don't see anything in the text that guarantees its authenticity either. Wouldn't it be a crying shame if 2 Timothy (or all of the Pastorals) turned out to be a forgery?
