(March 27, 2010 at 3:25 pm)RedFish Wrote: Re: George Washington.. The cherry tree story ain't true? Man I have been HAD. The door to the old Poulton Hall used to stand behind the town hall in my home town. Bordered a graveyard. We played on and around it often as kids. Was FULL of character, overgrown ivy etc, a beautiful thing. Has been moved to completely the wrong place now.
Anywho, we learned the cherry tree story young, and some of us even learned from it. Whenever 'caught' doing something naughty, I would always hold my hand up to it. Always. Because of that story. And that door.
Doesn't change the stories' validity though, I'm not about to renounce honesty or anything...
Exactly! The story is a parable. It's meant to teach a lesson. Now, why couldn't the stories in the Bible (Noah's Ark, Samson and Delilah, David and Goliath, etc..) also be parables? Why couldn't the stories about Jesus also be parables? Makes a lot more sense than believing in a guy who could walk on water, heal the sick, feed a thousand people with a basket of fish and rise up from the dead.
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
