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Whichever of those that acomplishes to make you a more loving and accepting(that is better than tolerant) person
Maybe we are given rope.Are the stories in the Bible to be taken:
a) Literally
b) Metaphorically
c) Both
d) No one knows
This.Metaphorically. Like any other mythology. One simply can't look at the entirety of the bible and honestly take every word literally, unless there is something seriously wrong with their cognitive abilities that is. So once that is realized one must deal with the idea that if all of it is not actual and literal fact, what makes is reasonable to believe that any of it is? And then, what parts are to be literal and which aren't? And who decides which is which?
The problem so many seem to come up against is that they don't seem to think that metaphor and allegory can have great meaning and that things must be literal to have meaning. That simply isn't true. In fact, a story can have much greater meaning as allegory and metaphor than as a literal occurrence. There is nothing wrong with myth, it's what you take from it that is important, and sometimes the importance is greater that you take it as what it means or personally says to you rather than that it actually happened.
Are the stories in the Bible to be taken:
a) Literally
b) Metaphorically
c) Both
d) No one knows
Metaphorically. Like any other mythology. One simply can't look at the entirety of the bible and honestly take every word literally, unless there is something seriously wrong with their cognitive abilities that is. So once that is realized one must deal with the idea that if all of it is not actual and literal fact, what makes is reasonable to believe that any of it is? And then, what parts are to be literal and which aren't? And who decides which is which?
The problem so many seem to come up against is that they don't seem to think that metaphor and allegory can have great meaning and that things must be literal to have meaning. That simply isn't true. In fact, a story can have much greater meaning as allegory and metaphor than as a literal occurrence. There is nothing wrong with myth, it's what you take from it that is important, and sometimes the importance is greater that you take it as what it means or personally says to you rather than that it actually happened.
Are the stories in the Bible to be taken:
a) Literally
b) Metaphorically
c) Both
d) No one knows
So God may be a myth?
So, if I understand the comments correctly, the Bible is more of a self-improvement book, whether or not it is factual is irrelevant as long as it makes you a better person. If this is the case, what make the Bible any different than any other self-improvement book on the market?
So God may be a myth?
Are the stories in the Bible to be taken:
a) Literally
b) Metaphorically
c) Both
d) No one knows
Are the stories in the Bible to be taken:
a) Literally
b) Metaphorically
c) Both
d) No one knows
some are literal, some are metaphorical, some are parables, some are symbolic
you can determine which is which by the context.
really?some are literal, some are metaphorical, some are parables, some are symbolic
you can determine which is which by the context.