Should the Bible be taught to Minors?

[lockyfan]

So when Jesus says "feed my lambs", you don't take that as symbolic?

He saw the people as "sheep without a Shepherd" so he was saying he wanted his congregation looked after. As he does now. Because Jesus is the fine shepherd.

Do you think that when Jesus called Peter the rock on which he would build his church, he meant that he built a literal church on top of Peter? That'd hurt.

No but what he was meaning there was that Peter was to help build up the christian congregation of the time and to build up and strengthen the brothers in the faith.

However here is a question to you. Do you think Peter was the founder of the Roman Catholic Church?
Would a man Jesus put in charge to build up the congregation and make it grow, take followers away and form his own Church? That doesnt make any sense whatso ever!

So do you tell me that you take the Apostacy spoken of in the scriptures as being symbolic as well?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

He saw the people as "sheep without a Shepherd" so he was saying he wanted his congregation looked after. As he does now. Because Jesus is the fine shepherd.

So... apparently, you do make allowances for some non-literal interpretation of scripture.

No but what he was meaning there was that Peter was to help build up the christian congregation of the time and to build up and strengthen the brothers in the faith.

Again: so you're accepting a non-literal interpretation over the literal one. I see.

However here is a question to you. Do you think Peter was the founder of the Roman Catholic Church?

No, I don't.

Would a man Jesus put in charge to build up the congregation and make it grow, take followers away and form his own Church? That doesnt make any sense whatso ever!

I'm not really sure what point you're trying to argue, so it's hard for me to make sense of it to the point where I could say it makes sense or not.

So do you tell me that you take the Apostacy spoken of in the scriptures as being symbolic as well?

Which apostasy?