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To: CatherineofAragon

“Genesis is not written symbolically, nor as parable, nor poetry, etc.”

Indeed, the Bible usually very clearly delineates those sections. When Jesus tells a parable, the Bible says something like “and then Jesus told them the parable of ...”, or a postscript is attached explaining that the story was a parable. When the prophets see a vision, they wrote down stuff like “and then the Angel of the Lord showed me a vision of ...”. So we are not left to wonder what parts of the Bible are symbolic or allegorical, although that is what the Biblical fantasists would like.


237 posted on 11/25/2014 10:41:55 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman; allendale
"Indeed, the Bible usually very clearly delineates those sections. When Jesus tells a parable, the Bible says something like “and then Jesus told them the parable of ...”, or a postscript is attached explaining that the story was a parable. When the prophets see a vision, they wrote down stuff like “and then the Angel of the Lord showed me a vision of ...”. So we are not left to wonder what parts of the Bible are symbolic or allegorical, although that is what the Biblical fantasists would like."

Exactly right.

437 posted on 11/26/2014 5:03:26 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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