Theology uses documents, philosophy uses reason.

[xris]

Originally Posted by Dichanthelium

Your expression, "believing in scriptures" apparently represents the idea "accepting as absolutely true every part of the Bible."

I know people who have adopted that perspective, and though I disagree with them, it's not fair to say that "there is no reasoning" in that position. There is a lot of reasoning going on, but I do not find their reasoning persuasive.

As for the brick wall analogy, I would say that there's no need to adopt such an all-or-nothing stance. I'm quite confident that you and I would agree on many of the statements in the book of Proverbs, for example.

Its the principle of segregation by sectioning the bible into what is applicable and what is not.The Baptist of who i was once one ,separated themselves from the methodist for some silly reason and it carries on.C ofE convert to RC etc etc..If this god was so magnificent surely the first thing he should of done was to be bit more precise in his attention to his law.The book is not gods word or should it be conceived of as his word so why quibble over its content by scrutinising every chapter and verse. AS an agnostic i cant understand the attention to a book written by man.

[Dichanthelium]

Wherever this discussion may lead, it occurs to me that some of us may want to request that the site administrators remove the statement, "Theology uses documents, philosophy uses reason" from the heading above. It oversimplifies a complex topic and implies that theology restricts it's concerns to "documents." It also falsely implies that theology and philosophy employ significantly different methods in their discourses.

To that end, I hereby respectfully request that the site administrators remove the statement.

[Solace]

Uumm... didn't you start this thread dude? If ya didn't like the title, why'd you use it?

[Dichanthelium]

Originally Posted by Solace

Uumm... didn't you start this thread dude? If ya didn't like the title, why'd you use it?

Just to try to draw attention to the very point!

[Solace]

Then your reason was a good one and it remains. The title is fine imo. Making a title and then effectively arguing against it is a good way to go about it.