[ealgeone]

Afraid not verga.

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.

[Salvation]

Why are you tellin us that the Old Testament didn’t have real people and that Catholics don’t believe in them?

Why are you telling Catholics what we believe?

You are so mistaken.

[Grateful2God]

**That catholics don't view the OT as actually telling stories of real people and real events but rather view it as symbolic **

Hello, E! We had a similar conversation about symbolism.

The two are not mutually exclusive. The Bible is the living, breathing, dynamic Word of God. What the OT brethren lived and did was true-no matter how implausible it may sometimes seem, but with God, nothing is impossible!

At the same time those people, what they said and did, concerned the Covenant of which Jesus is the fulfillment. Our Lord Himself referred to the sign of Jonah, comparing it to His Death and Rising on the Third Day. There is a true story, maybe one of the strangest in the Bible, but true nonetheless, which was stated also as am allegory by Jesus Himself.

God bless you both!

[verga]

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.

Stop telling Catholics what we believe, that is mind reading.