(December 1, 2022 at 12:02 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(December 1, 2022 at 11:56 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: But did your Sunday School teachers ever tell you that Jonah and the whale (or any other story from the Bible) never happened and that it is only a metaphor?
No, they didn't. Not in catechism classes or through my many years at full Catholic schools.
Same-same. I was always taught what Adam and Eve did, not that it was a parable concerning something else. When we were taught that Jesus died after being nailed to a cross, or what happened to Jezebel or that JTB ate bugs, it was explained to us that these were actual historical events with moral lessons behind them.
I can't think of a single Bible story that wasn't related to us as historic fact (apart from parables so labeled).
Boru
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