Some people be like, “Yeah it’s cool if you’re Christian, as long as you don’t believe in anything supernatural.” Re: virgin birth, walking on water, resurrection, etc. Supernatural intervention is the *core* of the gospels. Christianity isn’t compatible with positivism.
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Replying to @oerhoert
Are people who don’t take the gospels to be literal truth not Christian?
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Replying to @peidran
That's not quite what I said, but let's say that if you reject *every* supernatural story in the Bible, you're not Christian in any traditional sense.
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In doing so, one would reduce Jesus to a philosopher, and it'd make the gospels into a rather odd story … about this ethicist who spent half his time talking about an imaginary “kingdom of heaven.”
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Not that it's not an odd story to begin with, but it hangs together better if you believe it, or at least if you believe that the authors believed it.
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Replying to @oerhoert
Right, that’s a much lower bar. Many people seem happily agnostic on the question of whether the supernatural elements are real, while staying committed to the deeper lessons.
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Anyway, I don’t judge on these counts, and I’m sorry that others do.
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