(March 15, 2018 at 3:38 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Yeah, as a Catholic so long as you accepts the fundamental basics, you are free to take either a literal or allegorical stance to the OT, and some other passages throughout the bible.
It's perfectly understandable that believers might wish to treat the more fanciful stories in the OT allegorically because literal readings of some of them would lead to ridiculously childish conclusions . . . unlike those rock-solid stories in the NT (you know, the 'fundamental basics').
