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> Some of us realize that the Bible is a book of metaphors and guidelines, not a literal future-history account. The first time someone told me that the story
by madamelic 9y ago
> Some of us realize that the Bible is a book of metaphors and guidelines, not a literal future-history account.
The first time someone told me that the story of Adam and Eve was allegorical and not literal, it blew my mind.
I had grown up and been taught "literalism", in that everything that Bible said was literally the truth and not simply a story.
- Declanomous 9y agoSerious question, how did you rationalize contradictions in the bible? The story of Adam and Eve directly contradicts the story of creation told immediately prior. The Bible didn't make any sense to me until I took a religious studies course and learned that the old testament is basically the verbal tradition of the ancient Jewish people in written form. I had tried reading the bible when I was much younger, and the contradictions were so absurd I started highlighting them, and I ran out of highlighter before I ran out of Bible. I'm still not religious, but at least religion kind of makes sense to me now.