[MrPiper]

If you read/study/meditate on the Bible - you would never ask that.

I have been reading the bible and similar texts for twenty years and it still seems like fables.

[presently no screen name]

I have been reading the bible and similar texts

I'll assuming it's the true Bible.

If you are trying to understand some of the it, i.e., like God spoke the Creation into existence, you cannot use your own natural mind to understand the supernatural. God is Supernatural. Also, The Holy Spirit is the Teacher. Ask Him for understanding.

[tpanther]

Maybe it would help to sit down with a group and discuss it much as you would a science text in a scientific classroom setting.

Couldn’t hurt!

But I WOULD suggest a group that indeed understands it not as fables, but as the Written Word of God!

[marinamuffy]

I have been reading the bible and similar texts for twenty years and it still seems like fables.

This may be why:

The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. ~ 1 Corinthians 2:14

marinamuffy

PS - I felt the same way through my teens & early 20's. Thankfully the Lord opened my heart to His love and grace. It's like reading a whole new book since then.