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Apparently, the Bible verses about a talking snake are literal, but the part about forgiving everyone's debt is just a metaphor.

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Ethan Black
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@qurlyjoe The verse about forgiving everyone was literal too. I am around a lot of Christians and I have never heard anyone claim that forgiving people was just a metaphor.

(You said forgiving everyone's *debt*, though... could you share a verse reference?)

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It’s a joke. Riffing on the current right wing anathema toward any notion of mitigating student debt in particular and thereby any debt in general, except for Republican owned companies who got Covid-relief loans excused, for instance, and the stereotypical right wing Christian evangelical insistence on a literal interpretation of the parts of the Bible that they think suit their politics. So, no, I have no chapter and verse to quote.

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Ethan Black  

@qurlyjoe Oh OK, my bad.

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@golemwire 👊🏻

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Colin Watson  

@golemwire @qurlyjoe Matthew 6:12 seems like the obvious one? (It's not always translated "debt", but as far as I can see the Greek had both legal/monetary and figurative senses.)

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Colin Watson  

@golemwire @qurlyjoe Deuteronomy 15:1-11 doesn't seem irrelevant either. (Admittedly directed specifically at Israelites, though isn't much of Christianity predicated on reading that as broadly as possible, at least when it seems convenient?)

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Ethan Black  

@cjwatson @qurlyjoe Matthew 6:12: "and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors." (translation: ESV).
This is part of the well-known example prayer by Jesus, "the Lord's prayer". On giving it a read (again) I think it is pretty clear that it is in no way talking about money owed.

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Ethan Black  

@cjwatson @qurlyjoe Deuteronomy 15:1-11 was directed at the Israelites, yes. The Old Testament law was just the law of the ancient Israelites, but due to who Christians believe created the Bible, when there's something universal in the Old Testament, we'll continue to follow it.

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