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**BqTyG9eS** · 09-18-2011, 10:48 AM

I recall reading contradictory suttas about the numbers of kinds of things, like one sutta will say 'there are 8 kinds of X' and the very next sutta will say something like, 'there are 9 kinds of X.'

I've noticed a tendency in some to attribute western-style (Judeo-Christian) omniscience to the Buddha, and therefore sutta-thump much in the same way as fundamentalist Christians claim inerrancy in the Bible. I don't think strict literalism is the proper interpretive approach, as I don't think the suttas were composed with literalism in mind.

09-18-2011, 10:48 AM	#3
BqTyG9eS Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 547 Senior Member	I recall reading contradictory suttas about the numbers of kinds of things, like one sutta will say 'there are 8 kinds of X' and the very next sutta will say something like, 'there are 9 kinds of X.' I've noticed a tendency in some to attribute western-style (Judeo-Christian) omniscience to the Buddha, and therefore sutta-thump much in the same way as fundamentalist Christians claim inerrancy in the Bible. I don't think strict literalism is the proper interpretive approach, as I don't think the suttas were composed with literalism in mind.
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