In Reply to: My favorite verse posted by Acheick on January 09, 2004 at 13:09:19:
First Covenant: "What is good has been explained; this is what Yahweh asks of you: only this, to act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God." (Micah 6:8)
Second Covenant: "Be compassionate as the Holy One is compassionate. Do not judge, and you will not be judged yourselves; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned yourselves; grant pardon, and you will be pardoned." (Luke 6:36-37)
It is not important to me that scripture be internally consistent or factual in the way that modern readers have come to expect a news report to provide objectively true facts about events and people. For example, whether or not Jesus physically walked on water is irrelevant to me: the point of the story is what illuminates my spiritual journey. What is most important to me in scripture is the existential truth (internal light of meaning) it brings to my walk with God. "Fact" and "truth" do not mean exactly the same thing to me.