The "I want to hear more about AiG" thread

[jo]

[Rosie Cotton]

Sarky -- never heard that, I like it Thanks Jo! I guess I consider myself a biblical literalist, but it doesn't mean I think all the metaphors and parables actually happened. I know God likes stories. Heck, he created CS Lewis and gave him that gift!

[jo]

Yeah.. that was quite a gift, too *has just reread Till We Have Faces*

[Shadowland Dweller]

I think I not am overly sensitive if I say that Theo and AllanS's comments were sarastic, but I am over that now. I don't want this thread to be a "he said she said" debate.


To make my position clear on why I take the bible at face value. It's not because I don't think God doesn't know how to write or enjoy a good story, but it's more the the cutting of Aslans mane, they did that because they wanted him to not be so intimidating. I don't mind God being intimidating. He is so much more than I could ever hope to try to imagine. The thought of Him creating everything in 6 days absolutly blows my mind, and then I think, and this God wants a relationship with me!!!. This has been my thinking for years, now I hear of people who have more schooling than I have age who show evidence of that great God, well, I got excited and I still am! I love when nature speaks of it's creator in such a loud voice.

I of course don't take every single word as literal, Jesus spoke in parables, and that means we can too. The important thing to look at is context. What is being said? When we are told to pluck out our eye if it offends us, the message is, what is the message? I am not going to pluck my eye out because I am not that literal, I know what the heart of the messege is.

I would like to ask, what is wrong with believing as I do? It seems to be unpopular (and not just here). Why is it silly to believe that dinosaurs and people lived in the same time? Or that Noah's flood covered the entire earth? Or that death and disease is a result of the curse? [/i]

[jo]

[Leslie]

[King Edmund]

[larry gilman]

[Shadowland Dweller]

[Leslie]

[Karen]

[Shadowland Dweller]

[jo]

Well how do we know which is the real deal and which not? How do YOU know which is the real deal and which not? :)

[Shadowland Dweller]

[Leslie]

What does AiG stand for, anyway (the name, that is)?