RE: The Fall as Allegorical Fiction.
July 20, 2014 at 11:56 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2014 at 12:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Which is powerful for the way it allows us to explore our experiences from the relative safety of fantasy. Somebody clearly didn't get enough beddy-by stories as a kid...lol. Of course it's fiction Thom - there's a dragon in it, and a witch doctor to boot, pretty much seals the deal. There would have been no way for anyone to have written a non-fiction story about some adam and some eve and their dealings with the god of the garden. Believers expect too much from this story (or any of them) and in doing so they fail to appreciate a good lie for what it is. I don't see why you have to.
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