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Originally Posted by martinguerre
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you can call us "cafeteria christians" but the slur just hides the fact that any reading of the scripture will have to dismiss parts to accept others.
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Yes and no. Reading scripture while remaining cogniscant of the situations in which they were written - including the fact that the Gospels were NOT written by their attributed authors and were also written to address specific communities - can enable one to read the scripture as a whole and glean a message from all parts of it. Just not a literal, black and white, or easy message.