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Post by general313 on May 18, 2020 17:00:14 GMT
Baloney. The Bible says God created everything in 6 days --- including man. No mention of dinosaurs. But archeologists keep finding dinosaur bones. No, the Bible is a collection of parables losely based on human history around the Mediterranean Sea. No mention of India, China, Japan or the Western Hemisphere. It wasn't written by God. It wasn't even written by humanity. It was written by men who lived around the Mediterranean with little to no knowledge of the rest of the world, solar system, galaxy or cosmos. Whoah, you've jumped from talking about The Gospels to the entire Bible. Genesis, if taken fictionally, would be an allegory or creation myth, not a parable. Genesis is far more complex than any parable, which is why it's been read in a variety of ways, with different aspects symbolizing different things to whomever was doing the interpreting. It's far more "open" than an actual parable like The Prodigal Son or The Ten Virgins. I think you need to read up a bit more on what a parable is. I wish I could find the post way back where I explained the difference between different modes of symbolic storytelling. Frequently, parables are little more than extended similes or metaphors, while in allegories the simile/metaphor aspect is not directly stated but is merely implied. That's also probably why many people DO take Genesis (or even Revelation) literally, because they don't explicitly state their symbolic nature. However, it's a trivial point that, even if you take all of The Bible as being symbolic storytelling (it's not; much of it also functioned as Jewish law) it wouldn't all be parables. This one? When Jesus said to eat of his flesh and drink of his blood.. It's a classic!
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