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Post by Arlon10 on May 19, 2020 8:07:05 GMT
That's what we were taught. The Bible is a collection of parables. Not an historical account. Your teaching was very atypical then. The problem with reading it all as parable is manifold, including the fact that Jesus's own parables would then be parables within parables. Plus, parables tend not to be historic in nature, and there's plenty of actual history mentioned in The Gospels. There are theories out there that The Gospels are historic in the same way, say, Spider-Man is historic, meaning that it mentions real places and people but the narratives themselves are fictional; but even then that wouldn't make all the stories parables. Parables tend to be short, allegorical and aphoristic, and most of the Gospels are none of those things. A person has to be very severely mentally deficient not to see the art in the Bible. Much of it is people trying to survive while their neighbors are totally without morality. I've known quite young people who can understand it. Your failure is odd. What drives you to make such obvious mistakes?
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