If you leave off the metaphors of anything, it world would be so dull and grey it would depress the universe.
When you replace metaphors with facts you are able to use logic to deduce what should be found. You are able to make testable predictions.
What a dull and grey world it would be without Superman and Kryptonite, how boring without leprechauns! Life would not be worth living without without Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny!
The real world is much more wonder-full than all of your fables, myths, parables and metaphors.
In order to be God's child, you must be reborn and get rid of your stuffy, arrogant, pompus attitude that you drip wisdom and knowledge.
And you, of course, can set me straight. You know exactly what I must do to gain God's provisional acceptance. I am reminded of the time in kindergarten when one of my classmates assured me that 1 + 1 = 2, and 2 + 2 = 3!
You have to come to Christ as a child and learn His way.
I am getting the distinct impression that you would have me learn
your way. I suspect that if God wanted me to be like you, he would have made me you.
You have to have a severe attitude change to one of humbleness and acceptance of the fact that all your vast knowledge is but a drop in the ocean.
My knowledge may be vast compared to yours, but I can barely get my head around the absolute differential calculus. Sometimes I don't read every article in
Science or even
Science News. Most of my knowledge is tentative, and subject to revision if new facts or better reasoning dictate.
We have to accept we NEED Him.
If you need myth and metaphor because you cannot handle facts and reasoning, that does not mean that others share your disabilities. Not all of us need
Basic Theology for Dummies.
Otherwise, we will never see past our pride and self righteous fog.
DANG! There goes another irony meter!
Only then can you grow up.
I notice a not so subtle shift from "we" to "you".
I am really sorry, JacksBratt, I am sure you are a very nice human, as humans go, but I find your reasoning and the facts you base it on, somewhat ... shaky.
