[VRWC_minion]

Like the Parables.

The parables use real events in everday life.

[ZULU]

The parables may use POSSIBLE real events, but the REALITY of the SPECIFIC event used is IRRELEVANT to the story narrated.

Its NOT IMPORTANT if the "good Samaritan" REALLY existed. The POINT of the story si what is important.

The Bible is full of symbolism. Its a theological work. Its not a biology book. The "Snake" in the Garden of Eden was Satan. The little story about eating the dust of the earth was a symbolic tale of proably what happens to people to lead others into sin. The serpent getting its head crushed by the woman's heel refers to Christ, the Son of Mary destroying Satan, not to a woman stomping a snake. Its symbolical.

St. Patrick and the driving of "snakes" from Ireland is another example. There NEVER were ANY snakes in Ireland. The SNAKES were a symbol of the human-sacrificing pagan Druids.