My Escatological Vision

[OnlyNatural]

The Bible says a lot of thing, most of which is analagous, not literal.

If that's the case, and the Bible is mostly analogy and metaphor, then it can be interpreted in nearly limitless ways. Interpreting a metaphor in the way that is most pleasing to you, then calling your interpretation the truth, is laughable. And you can't pick and choose which parts are literal, and which parts are metaphorical. On what basis could you make such claims anyway? Let's just agree that it's all fiction, with no bearing on the truth, and leave it at that.

And so the Church and her magesterium has interpretted the Bible to such a degree that we know what is to be taken literal, what can be taken as analogy and what is just analogy. For example, the resurrection is to be taken literal de fide (this means from faith literally, but dynamically it means it is to be taken as true forever and can never change) the Church has bound this on the faithful in such a way that that teaching can never change, however a 7 day creation can be taken as analogy or it can be taken literally, and so can Jonah and the Whale etc.

Even if the Catholic church has come to some sort of consensus on what is literally true or not, each sect of Christianity has a different interpretation of what is 'true forever and can never change,' to say nothing of different religions. The point is that with so many opinions and interpretations, all made by fallible human beings who don't have all the answers, how can we ever say 'this is the Truth'? Maybe the resurrection is just a metaphor. Maybe Jesus himself is a metaphor. Maybe God is a metaphor too.

Personally, I prefer to go out into the world and discover the evidence for myself, instead of relying, unquestionably, on the opinions of biased religious leaders who cling to tradition, faith, and revelation.