Religion
In reply to the discussion: March 25 good news: 84 percent of the world population has faith........ [View all]Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)Under Platonic dualistic influence, it came to be said that science is about material things; religion, spiritual.
So the two were compatible in that they were about different things. They were non overlapping.
However, when material promises were rewritten as just metaphors for spiritual things, many like Peter hinted that this "twisted" the original meaning..
To Moses, God had promised literal actual water. The New Testament played sly language games. And twisted it into a metaphor. Jesus hints that he gives good ideas, good news, which is our "water." Or say, "bread indeed."
Some critics of this process though, like myself, suggest this "twisting, " this "metaphoricalization, " was not honest; the original Old Testament promises HAD been literal promises, of physical things. God had promised us actual literal water in the hot dry desert of the Sinai. But when those promises often failed, the New Testament apologetically claimed he was only speaking metaphorically, spiritually.
A human snake had twisted the meaning; to disguise the fact that the old physical promises often didn't work.
Research "metaphoricalization" and "spiritualization."