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To: Salvation; wideawake; sandyeggo
Some may write off the whole Bible as being merely symbolic or allegorical, while others take every word as the kind of literal truth you get when you say something like, "The fire is hot." Symbolically, that same fire represents the power, warmth, and enthusiastic fervor poured into Christians by the Holy Spirit. You can approach the flame literally or figuratively, but either way, the fire is "true."

No one in the world has ever, does now, or will ever, interpret the every single word of the Bible as being of the same sense as "the fire is hot." This is a straw man created to justify the rejection of things recorded in the Bible that are outside the purview of modern science and outside our own experiences (the six day creation, the age of the ancients, Noah's Flood, the Tower of Babel, etc.).

It's a good thing those liberal German Protestants discovered how primitive and exclusively allegorical the Bible is. What would Catholics have done without them?

205 posted on 04/20/2007 9:00:30 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Please pray for the refu'ah shelemah of Yehudah Ben Rivqah, father of Binyamin Jolkovsky.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

It’s a good thing those liberal German Protestants discovered how primitive and exclusively allegorical the Bible is. What would Catholics have done without them?


Keep about the business of bringing the Word of Christ to the world. You know, what Jesus charged us to do.


209 posted on 04/20/2007 12:00:07 PM PDT by MarkBsnr
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