DvF Wrote:I'm not suggesting that only Genesis might be allegory. I'm saying that it is logically possible that everything in the Bible is allegory except the fact that God created the universe and Jesus is God incarnate. And so, Jesus could also be God incarnate but everything else about Jesus was allegory, maybe even the miracles. Maybe he just has God's mind and he is God in human form, but he can't do anything that God can do?
If the entire Bible is allegory then how can we determine there was even an historical Jesus? There would be no way of telling what is real about Jesus because he's obviously so intertwined with everything else that's allegorical in the NT.
DvF Wrote:Are you attempting to disprove every conceivable form of Christianity believable by an individual or just certain forms? I reckon that you can do the latter but not the former.
I was trying to disprove it as a whole, but it seems like everytime you turn up the "allegory knob" and change the allegory content closer to 100% to discredit my argument (which by the way is called moving the goal posts) then technically I had only disproved the breed of Christianity that allowed x% of allegory. Except you can only avoid the arguments via allegory-incrementation for so long before you yourself start producing impossible scenarios that show Christianity is not the truth:
Quote:Not if divinity is allegory.
How can Jesus literally be God incarnate but allegorically hold this divinity?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
