Maybe general faith does not, but religious faith seems to require a personal interpretation of God who can be somehow in relationship with us.
She didnāt say otherwise. The point @Historyprof was making is that religious faith does NOT require a LITERAL interpretation of scripture.
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I agree. I donāt have enough faith for the universe or me to have come from nothing. I have to believe in a personal God outside of and controlling Nature.
If we only assume there is some process that created us and not a Person, how can we experience love? If we do not assume there is a God how can we experience relationship? Can we have a redeeming relationship with a process? Will that be enough?
I think one does have to assume there is a personal God who man is accountable to and a standard man must live up to, which he canāt. And he then must assume God arranged some other way for creation (and man) to find harmony with a Him, a way that is based on both grace and faith. Without grace and faith there can be no salvation. I do not think we can get to this kind of ultimate truth without some kind of literal history. Eastern cyclical views try to do this, but give us no solid basis to what a Christian has to believe. All truth must, at some point, be literal and historical. Symbols prove themselves useful only when there is reality they represent.
Hi,
āFaith does not require a literal interpretation of scripture.ā Quote from Historyprof
If you mean the secular faith that evolutionists have, I agree.
But, if you are saying that saving faith does not require a literal interpretation, how do you come to that conclusion?
Can Jesus not be real and yet we can have a personal relationship that is real?
How is that logical?
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The real question I have is, are we supposed to fit the Bibleās truth into the theories of science, or are we supposed to take the Bible and use the facts, not the theories, of science perhaps to understand the Bible better?
Since, as you say, the Bible is inspired, it must be primarily used to establish the truth about God and the universe with the facts of science benefiting us in elucidating, perhaps, how God did his creating, because God does not inspire the works of science at the same level as he did the Bible, not even close.
For example, evolution is a theory and will remain a theory like the Big Bang, because no one has ever observed one species changing into another one or the beginning of the universe. Therefore, we say what the Bible makes clear that God made it all and that he made humans as his special creatures to take care of and rule the animal kingdom.