Chizzang wrote:Ibanez wrote:
It’s a history book with allegorical stories. I’d start there.
It’s also written by men with a certain goal, so there’s a bias.
Have you read the New Testament..?
Maybe we should start there because you sound confused
I may have read it in between Mass every week growing up, or at youth groups or those years between 1993-2001 that I was in Catholic school. Maybe i've read it once or twice.
I'm not confused. It's my opinion. The Bible is a history book. Stories like Moses parting the Red Sea are, in my opinion, an allegorical lesson. It's not that it actually happened, it's that God will save you and will literally move the seas to help you escape trouble - as long as you have faith in him.
Besides, i'm talking about THE BIBLE, that's the OT and NT. Regardless, both are still history books. Sacred texts, scripture. If you believe, sure. The Gospels are biographies of Jesus. Acts is a history book of the early Church.
One of my favorite pastors, Father Patat would always say that the point of the Bible isn't to necessarily say that God did something - it's to prove what God can do and will do to those that believe.
It's my opinion. Don't like it?...ignore it.
