[JohnnyM]

so was the virgin birth allegorical?
how about walking on water?
healing a blind man?
water into wine?
was being raised from the dead on the third day allegorical?

I agree that all these are impossible, but with God all things are possible and all of these happened.

JM

[RockinRight]

Actually, that’s my point.

Most of us agree that SOME of it is allegorical...few would suggest that your examples are.

It’s that nether region in between that is in dispute.

[Matchett-PI]

All the things you mention had unimpeachable, rational witnesses willing to die for what they knew to be true.

"...engaging [in] what I will call from here on "trailer park scholarship" .... Who are these people trying to kid? Their scholarship, as a whole, is reckless and pitiable; what they know, they have learned from reading a few popular books with no conception of the broader issues and fields at hand. .. "Why did God make the Bible so hard to understand, then?" It isn't -- none of this keeps a person from grasping the message of the Bible to the extent required to be saved; where the line is to be drawn is upon those who gratuitously assume that such base knowledge allows them to be competent critics [or commentators] of the text, and make that assumption in absolute ignorance of their own lack of knowledge.."