Barring Jesus' parables and other stories that are relayed explicitly as just story, the Bible has to be either all literal or all allegorical (fiction)
Says who? The Bible rules?
>>18110355>the Bible has to be either all literal or all allegorical (fiction)You never read the entire Bible, and if you did, you couldn't understand. There's allegorical things, which are parables, and there's literal things. It's very easy to distinguish.
>>18110355It's an understandable hypothesis, but it runs into trouble every step of its way. You acknowledge there are cases when allegory is used. You will surely acknowledge there are cases when factuality is claimed (Acts 4:20, 1st John 1:1-3...). But what makes you claim this dividing line runs through explicitly set-aside stories & parables? It would take an overwhelming amount of theoretical rigor to justify this position, but luckily for you, you don't have to do that. You can just abandon the literal-alegorical dichotomy altogether and embrace the symbolic understanding of truth, as the writers of the Bible seem to have had. It's difficult (at least for me), but it resolves issues that are catastrophic within a positivist paradigm, but that ancient Christians didn't seem to worry about at all.
>>18110355haha OP I love froggo XD
