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If I say that you are not a tree, would that be blasphemous? What if I say that you are not an alien, not a Voodoo priest, not a Mongolian, not an astro-physicst, not a Roman Catholic, not a whatever??? How is that blasphemous?

Frank, no belief in the Bible = no basis for biblical beliefs, the foundation for faith in Christ... that is my oversimplified answer :)

Well, many love to toss the word "blasphemy" around for many different purposes. What does the Bible say about blasphemy?

In John 10:32,33, it tells how the Jews were going to stone Jesus. He asked them why they were about to stone Him and they said, "For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God."

Blasphemy is for a man to speak for God!

I would NEVER presume to speak for God other than quoting scripture.

I have found no other definition of "blasphemy" in the Bible.

It is not a catch all word, and is clearly defined in John 10:33.

Gorilla, if scripture can mean ANYTHING, it means NOTHING.

Parts that are written in a figurative genre are open to interpretation unless the passage also presents the interpretation. Parts written in a historical genre are not to be interpreted figuratively.

wow...this discussion is over my head..
I think the longevity of the Holy Bible, the scientific proof of its records, and sheer fact that is the best selling book out there..should mean something..it outlast all others because of where the word came from!! The bible was given as a gift...and yet..so many have no clue what it says.. it is a Love story! The Story of God's love for his people. And that includes those people I find hard to love...
If I was on a deserted island, but I believed in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and accepted Him as my savior...I believe God himself would find a way to show me His word..by the Holy Spirit, much like he did in the earliest of christianity....

Gorilla - indeed, the non-allagorical hermeneutical approach in which the text is taken literally unless there is compelling literary evidence to merit a figrative meaning is just another approach. What makes is differnt is that it is the standard academic approach used for the evaluation of ANY ancient document. This approach focuses on the internal, exteral and bibliographic evidence as the basis for evaluating the text. In so doing, there is greater attempt of objectivity rather than defaulting to the subjectvity of allogorical presuppositions. So if "no interpertation is wrong" as you say, then every interpretation is right an the Book is effectively worthless. That does not mean the MY interpretation is ALWAYS right ... just that anything and everything is NOT right. Make sense? As you seem to be a kind person, I think that you would agree that interpretations that attempt justify great harm to others and contradict the goodness and wisdom of God would not be correct interpretations.

Dear DF,

NO, One Cannot Be A Christian, and NOT Beleive the Bible! Here are some of the MANY Verses that say so!

(James 1:22) Keep on being doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.

(1Corinthians 2:13-14) These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
(1Cor 2:14) But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

(John 12:48-49) He who rejects Me and does not receive My Words has one who judges him; the Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
(John 12:49) For I have not spoken of Myself, but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say, and what I should speak.

Matthew 4:4
Luke 4:4
Luke 6:46
John 15:3

Thanks for Asking! Roger459.

Dear "I"

Since when does GOD... need A Majority Human Opinion???

"NEVER!" .... It is Written....!

(Isaiah 55:6-to-11) Seek Jehovah GOD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

(Isa 55:7) Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah GOD, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

(Isa 55:8) For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways My ways, says Jehovah.

(Isa 55:9) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.

(Isa 55:10) For as the rain comes down, and the snow from the heavens, and does not return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring out and bud, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

(Isa 55:11) so shall My Word be, which goes out of My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall certainly do what I sent it to do.

Thanks, Roger459.