>do you believe in the Bible?
The Bible is a hyperlinked library of wisdom across centuries. It's not a book you simply believe in.
>so you don't take it literally?
Literalism is a modern distortion. Stories operate on multiple planes of reality simultaneously,
figurative, metaphoric, mockery, illustration.
>You're avoiding the question.
I'm challenging its false premises and challenging your fixation on absolutism.
>are you saved?
I think the idea of salvation is psychological, social, and metaphysical. The parts of me that are
saved and unsaved exists in flux, and superpositions.
>So you're not saved?
I'm working on aligning myself with the Logos.
>is that a yes?
It's a process, not a binary. Your hand closes in on a jelly like slime, and after you're gone,
collects up again as if nothing happened.
>Do you believe in Heaven and Hell?
We live out these processes psychologically. Every day. To try to pin down concrete literal
existence is a literalist hot take, and an error in you which calls to me for correction.
>that's not what the Bible says.
Well, the Bible isn't a manual. It's a narrative architecture of meaning.
>are you afraid of going to Hell?
I'm more afraid of becoming the kind of person who belongs there.
>do you think atheists can be moral?
That depends what you mean by "moral", and whether they're standing on borrowed ethical capital and
delinquent on the minimum payments of good works and good deeds as decided on by other.
>borrowed from what?
from Judeo-Christian metaphysics. From millennia of cultural evolution. The arrangement that
didn't die over the last 17 thousand years.
>so they're moral, but for the wrong reasons?
They're moral, but they don't know why.
>so you're better than them?
In most things, but humility requires I say no to avoid your trap.