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Allegory vs. Literal Fact in the Bible

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Allegory vs. Literal Fact in the Bible
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RE: Allegory vs. Literal Fact in the Bible
April 25, 2013 at 4:26 pm
I doubt anyone would provide a book-by-book breakdown, as much as a story-by-story breakdown. And that would be a pretty big undertaking. But I also think that the line between what 'really happened' and what is just a moral fable has moved over time, and will continue to do so as we learn more about the real past.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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Allegory vs. Literal Fact in the Bible

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Allegory vs. Literal Fact in the Bible - by rexbeccarox - April 25, 2013 at 4:05 pm
RE: Allegory vs. Literal Fact in the Bible - by Tonus - April 25, 2013 at 4:12 pm
RE: Allegory vs. Literal Fact in the Bible - by Jackalope - April 25, 2013 at 4:23 pm
RE: Allegory vs. Literal Fact in the Bible - by Tonus - April 25, 2013 at 4:26 pm
RE: Allegory vs. Literal Fact in the Bible - by Godschild - April 25, 2013 at 6:05 pm
RE: Allegory vs. Literal Fact in the Bible - by Tex - April 25, 2013 at 6:37 pm
RE: Allegory vs. Literal Fact in the Bible - by Ryantology - April 25, 2013 at 10:22 pm
RE: Allegory vs. Literal Fact in the Bible - by Raven - April 26, 2013 at 1:08 am

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