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Originally Posted by ReplayRandall
That sounds all well and good, at first glance. However, when someone attacks Christianity, which happens numerous times on a daily basis in this thread, what do you expect to happen?.....If you are attacked for your beliefs or non-beliefs, don't you have a right to defend? It goes both ways, with Christians being a target of attacks more so than others in at least the last 10 years.
A lot of "warriors" are on this board, who defend the faith, in case you hadn't noticed lately.
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I have not attacked Christianity, but exposed you to other interpretations. If anyone gets attacked it is myself, Gus and Light for not accepting boxcar's interpretation,
by boxcar all the fereaking time
The Early Church fathers accepted mysticism and analogy and metaphor. I did not make it up. Just tried to show how other religions use the same type of thinking and common themes. As I told you, you are late for the party not realizing boxcar's
constant insults and attacks over all 3 religious threads
http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/p.../chapter3.html
THE
ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION
OF THE SCRIPTURES
Allegorism was well established in Alexandrian Judaism, especially by Philo, who made a systematic use of it to bridge the chasm between the Old Testament revelation and the Platonic philosophy. Philo compares the literal sense of Scripture to the shadow which the body casts, finding its authentic, profounder truth in the spiritual meaning which it symbolizes. He does not want to depreciate or abolish the literal or the historical meaning, but looks to it as man’s body which merits the fullest respect.
The School of Alexandria adopted the allegorical interpretation of the Holy Scripture, believing that it hides the truth and at the same time reveals it. It hides the truth from the ignorant, whose eyes are blinded by sin and pride, hence they are prevented from the knowledge of the truth. At the same time it always reveals what is new to the renewed eyes of believers. St. Clement of Alexandria is considered the first Christian theologian (writer) who uses allegorical interpretation, giving a cause of using it in a practical way. He says that the Bible has hidden meanings to incite us to search and discover the words of salvation, which are hidden from those who despise them. The truth is in the pearls which must not be offered to the swines. His disciple, Origen, adds other justifications of using allegorical interpretation to the Scriptures.
