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The bad news for many evangelicals is that no amount of whining, rationalizing, or closing our eyes and wishing really, really hard will change the fact that Christianity’s authoritative document—the document that God intended us to have—looks more like The Lord of the Rings than The Collected Sayings of Gandalf. It is what it is—and what it is is a narrative.
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Why are People Afraid to Admit that the Bible is a Story? (via azspot)
Really, you have to go further; the entire thing’s a parable meant to be interpreted.
Reblogged from AZspot
