[vladimir998]

“That catholics don’t view the OT as actually telling stories of real people and real events but rather view it as symbolic is telling....and sad at the same time.”

eagleone, so St. Paul was wrong? Galatians 4:24. The simple fact that even “real people” have symbolic significance as St. Paul knew. That doesn’t make them unreal, or any less real. It just means they have symbolic significance.

[Resettozero]

Context...
Hagar and Sarah
Galatians 4:24 (NASB)

23 But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.
24 This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants: one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar.
25 Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.…