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ESSAY ON BIBLICAL LITERALISM

by Rick McGrath
11/28/15
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With the current uprising of conflict between the religious argument and the secular world especially in recent months as legal battles have been wages for or against religious freedom and more recently the Supreme Court’s backing equality for same sex marriages, the religious community of Christian Fundamentalism and Reconstructionism hinges their philosophical view of taking the Bible literal word for word, as God breathed and inspired thereby assigning it full authority over anything that falls outside of the Bible itself.  Regardless of facts or strong evidence that science may itself have proven over and over again as fact.   

The point of this essay is to challenge the reader with having to reconcile contradictions that are apparent within the pages of the Bible.  These are but a few but certainly not limited to these only.   

The Requirements for Salvation

The relationship between salvation and goodness is unclear. The plurality of Christian denominations in the world bears witness to the Bible's lack of clarity on the requirements for entry into heaven (i.e., for salvation), and this confusion, in turn, arises from a bewildering web of scriptural incongruities.

Jesus himself enunciates the requirements for salvation in the 3rd chapter of John vs. 3, "...Except a man be born again , he cannot see the kingdom of God