I don't have time to respond to everything right now, but I'll get started.
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Originally Posted by LuckyTxGuy
My response to your first and probably your second question would be this.... If your friend seems to give good poker advice but then you discovered he was lying to you about many other things he told you, wouldn't you begin to question his poker advice and pretty much every story or "fact" he told you?
First of all, there's a difference between a "lie" and something that roughly resembles the situation I put forward. But I come down along the same lines as well named here. How do I know that poker advice is good or bad? There's a form of external verification.
And while I might "question" his poker advice in the absence of some form of verification, that doesn't make the poker advice automatically wrong or bad.
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Put very simply, sort of like the little boy who cried "wolf!". How do you know when to believe your friend and when not to?
The thing about the story of the boy who cried wolf is that he REPEATEDLY cried wolf to the point that nobody paid attention to him. Your position is dramatically different because you've created an all-or-nothing dichotomy.
Edit: To clarify, you've taken a position that if someone is wrong once that you should never trust them about anything.
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Unless the Bible explicitly says or implies that a particular story or potion is a parable, how can we start waving our wand over certain parts and deciding what is a parable or allegory or not?
This is an interesting one, because you have now pre-defined that the Bible must FIRST be interpreted literally unless otherwise noted. Why is that the base assumption and not that the Bible is primarily a book that conveys accurate theology, and not necessarily a book of literal history?
Last edited by Aaron W.; 06-29-2016 at 01:56 AM.