This all has no bearing on the basic ethics and morality of Christianity or Judaism. All of the religions have the same spiritual message, but not the same dogma by the followers.
Any religious group can have basic ethics and morality and have some crazy story about their Gods. Take for instance the Mormons. Nice people. They send their kids out to teach and help others. But then the Book of Mormon has Jesus visiting the
lost tribes or Israel in America.
When we read the Bible, we see no direct mention of the book of Mormon. But when we read the book of Mormon we see more answers to the question…
In the Apocrypha book it is revealed that the bulk of the Ten tribes of Israel sailed to a land which we can safely say is the modern day Americas today.
There is also mention in the New testament by the Messiah after his resurrection that he had to go and visit the other lost sheep.
I think that each culture and people made up their own Gods and religions. And since I would assume Baha'is don't believe the Greek, Egyptian, Aztec and other religions aren't true, and if that is so, then at least for some religions Baha'is would agree with me. I just include the some of the major religions in there also. And by making some, or most all of the stories in the Scriptures in the other religions, symbolic, Baha'is don't believe those stories really happened either. So, somebody made them up. I think it was the spiritual and religious leaders of the culture, and who do Baha'is say came up with those stories? For instance, the parting of the seas? God? Moses? Or the storytellers?
And sure, there can be some metaphorical meaning to the Bible stories, but I think they were written to be believed as literal. So, now what do we do with them? People living hundreds of years. A world-wide flood. Giants in the land. For me, it's fine. It's myth. It was meant to be believed but the stories were true. The message was to get people to believe and fear an invisible God that can strike them dead in an instant. So, they better believe in him and follow his rules.
For me, there's just too many stories, including the resurrection of Jesus, that Baha'is have to make "metaphorical". But what was the metaphorical meaning? I don't think it's that important to Baha'is. Because the main thing is that those stories are explained away. We don't have to worry about them. They didn't really happen. And then if someone asks, "Well, doesn't that make the Bible a lie?" The Baha'is answer is "no"... The stories aren't "literally" true. They are "metaphorically" true. But that's an awful lot of metaphors. And that just in the Bible. Add to that the Scriptures of the other religions. But sure, the basic ethics and morality are similar in most all religions.
