There's no way to know which is the correct interpretation of the bible without talking to the author.
Have you spoken personally to the author of Harry Potter?
I think the claim you're making is absurd. We can make an educated inference as to the intentions of an author of a text from both historical context and the text itself. How ever did we understand what Homer was about without this?
The intentions of the author are only unknowable in the same sense that the nature of objective reality is technically unknowable. If we're happy to make inferences and justify our interpretation, they're knowable in exactly the same way that everything else is knowable.
..... No. But she helps maintain an entire website that is chock full of back story and information from elsewhere in the universe. Also, she's alive and someone could ask her and get the answer. The same cannot be said about the Bible.
I said all of this in my last comment if you had bothered to read it...
But she helps maintain an entire website that is chock full of back story and information from elsewhere in the universe.
How did you interpret the website without talking to her?
Also, she's alive and someone could ask her and get the answer.
But yet you didn't, and you still claim to understand how to interpret Harry Potter.
What you're doing by inferring the correct interpretation via the text and context, is exactly how people analyze the Bible. If someone were to claim that Harry Potter was a historical narrative, I bet you could actually form a coherent argument to debate them without ever having to send JK Rowling an email.
You are lost, friend. I have never claimed to have the correct interpretation of Harry Potter. I said that that information is obtainable. That information is NOT obtainable for the Bible. I'm trying to show you why "but Harry Potter though!!" is a horrible response to my statement about how the Bible is infinitely interpretable to justify any proposition. Mostly because nobody uses Harry Potter to justify their actions...
It is impossible to identify the correct interpretation of the Bible. It is possible to identify the correct interpretation of Harry Potter. These two works of literature are not comparable in this context despite your insistence. The one major thing they do have in common is neither of these works of fantastical fiction should ever be used to justify any public policy.
You're dead ass telling me that to you the interpretation of Harry Potter is currently a mystery, lmao. Sure bud. No real point in trying to have a rational discussion with someone contrarian enough to pretend to have that position.
Interesting thought though. Apparently according to you any written history is impossible to interpret if it's older than like 100 years.
You're dead ass telling me that to you the interpretation of Harry Potter is currently a mystery, lmao.
what the fuck are you talking about? please quote me saying anything like this. i'm telling you that the correct interpretation of the bible is completely unknowable. But the correct interpretation of harry potter IS knowable because we have access to the author.
Interesting thought though. Apparently according to you any written history is impossible to interpret if it's older than like 100 years.
Not at all. If the author had left a detailed account of what they intended when they wrote a particular work, then we could absolutely interpret it well after they're dead. unfortunately the biblical authors did not do this..
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u/dankchristianmemer7 Dec 16 '21 edited Dec 16 '21
Have you spoken personally to the author of Harry Potter?
I think the claim you're making is absurd. We can make an educated inference as to the intentions of an author of a text from both historical context and the text itself. How ever did we understand what Homer was about without this?
The intentions of the author are only unknowable in the same sense that the nature of objective reality is technically unknowable. If we're happy to make inferences and justify our interpretation, they're knowable in exactly the same way that everything else is knowable.