Literal Bible Interpretations: A literal Bible presents me with far more problems(liabilities-jnr) than assets. It offers me a God I cannot respect, much less worship; a deity whose needs and prejudices are at least large as my own. I meet in the literal understanding of scriptures a God who is simply not viable, and what the mind cannot believe the heart can finally never adore.
-Bishop John Shelby Spong, "Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism" (1991).
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