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To: American Constitutionalist

“Some aspects and interpretations of some places of the bible could be taken literally when it is in it’s proper context and other times as Jesus Christ sometimes would speak in parables taken as in a allegory.”

I get that. I’m attempting to clarify which is the flood, Noah’s tale, tower of Babel etc are. Are they allegories or historical accounts of what actually happened.

“The bible translates or rather the bible interprets the bible by it’s self.”

That’s convenient, and yet makes no sense.

No one ever tried to tell me the camel through the eye of the needle story was about a real miraculous camel who could squeeze through tight spaces.


133 posted on 12/16/2013 3:09:59 PM PST by Fuzz
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To: Fuzz
" No one ever tried to tell me the camel through the eye of the needle story was about a real miraculous camel who could squeeze through tight spaces. "

That's why it is not something to be taken literally.
Jesus was trying to make a point with a mental picture of how it's more difficult for a rich man to make it to heaven because his heart is on his wealth than on God then it is for a camel to be squeezed through the eye of a needle.
He was making contrasts of 2 different things.
137 posted on 12/16/2013 3:52:56 PM PST by American Constitutionalist
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