Not every.
in general it is not hard to figure out what the bible is saying
I told you Gnosticism doesn't believe in a literalistic interpretation of Jesus Christ.
so ?
they are wrong
How do you know?
because it makes no sense to interpret it that way
Isn't that just fallacious?
It makes no sense, therefore it's false.
can any novel be interpreted to mean anything?
come on now
there is an original intent
I can read a book and not get the entirety of the author's original intent
it's due to my own imperfections and their inability to communicate perfectly
It's very hard with fictional religious texts.
but they can still communicate somewhat
and I can still understand to an extent
there is still some information being relayed it's just a matter of how much is lost in "translation"
and the literal physical resurrection of Christ is all over the new testament
If you and I have two different interpretations of an ancient text, how do we know which one of us is right?
we would have to do a lot of intense study
exegesis
not eisegesis
don't ready into the text anything that isnt there
There's thousands of ways to interpret any given religious text.
you would have to go to seminary to really be able to have any authority on it
so?
thousands of wrong ways to interpret a text like the bible
So which interpretation is right? Which denomination.
each denomination gets some things right and others wrong, this is because people are dumb animals and the text was written by dumb animals
the text itself is flawed
that doesn't mean it can't communicate anything at all clearly
the people reading it are flawed
this does not mean they are incapable of understanding any of it
I'm not defending the bible as a book full of truths
I'm saying many different authors wrote it
and they had their original intentions
and that is the meaning of the text
there are not multiple valid interpretations
because one denomination disagrees about one thing doesn't mean anything
it means someone is wrong or no one is right and the meaning is lost
