Get it? Now, there's a problem here, and it comes from the failure to read the Bible in the appropriate way.
A failure to read scripture correctly can have some very bad, even catastrophic consequences.
Consider the church father Origen, who is often quoted by those who dismiss the Jewishness of the Old Testament and the Jewishness of Jesus.
Origen read a passage in scripture which says that we should be, quote, "Eunuchs for Christ," or more precisely, that we should be, quote, "Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven." What did he do? He promptly castrated himself.
How do we know this? The incident is recorded by another church father, Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History.
Eusebius notes that Origen wanted to protect himself from sexual temptation, but most of all he wanted to be obedient to the scriptures.
Evidently, Origen, in reading literally what might have been intended metaphorically, ended up losing his way and also his testicles.
Speaking for myself, I would hate to lose my testicles over misreading a text.
Since the Bible was first assembled, starting in the second century and becoming a canonical, uh, or established text in the fourth century, Christians have understood its books and passages can be read in multiple ways.
Dante calls this the allegory of the theologians, and he distinguishes it from the allegory of the poets.
Now, poets generally use two types of allegory, the simile, which is a direct comparison, and the metaphor, which is an implied comparison.
Get it? Now, there's a problem here, and it comes from the failure to read the Bible in the appropriate way.
A failure to read scripture correctly can have some very bad, even catastrophic consequences.
Consider the church father Origen, who is often quoted by those who dismiss the Jewishness of the Old Testament and the Jewishness of Jesus.
Origen read a passage in scripture which says that we should be, quote, "Eunuchs for Christ," or more precisely, that we should be, quote, "Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven." What did he do? He promptly castrated himself.
How do we know this? The incident is recorded by another church father, Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History.
Eusebius notes that Origen wanted to protect himself from sexual temptation, but most of all he wanted to be obedient to the scriptures.
Evidently, Origen, in reading literally what might have been intended metaphorically, ended up losing his way and also his testicles.
Speaking for myself, I would hate to lose my testicles over misreading a text.
Since the Bible was first assembled, starting in the second century and becoming a canonical, uh, or established text in the fourth century, Christians have understood its books and passages can be read in multiple ways.
Dante calls this the allegory of the theologians, and he distinguishes it from the allegory of the poets.
Now, poets generally use two types of allegory, the simile, which is a direct comparison, and the metaphor, which is an implied comparison.
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