(August 28, 2016 at 1:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 27, 2016 at 11:23 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: Well, taking a cue from the "main man" of the bible story, did Jesus teach in a direct manner? Or did he use metaphor and allegory to teach only those with ears to hear? Was it ever a common thing or even an art back then to conceal life processes and human archetypes in story form?
Several books of the bible quite clearly state all is not yet revealed, and there is more to come.
I'm of the camp that Jesus didn't teach anything to anyone, ever, in any style or manner.
But we aren't talking about parables, are we? Your lot try to explain away some of the more ludicrous stories in the Bible as metaphor, simply because they're uncomfortable - or even damning - if read any other way. But the sweetness-and-light bits you take as literal. Can't have it both ways, pal.
Boru
The "bible" is a collection of 66 books written by 40 authors over a period of several thousand years, several times abridged from a collection of over 600 books from many different authors, reduced through the perspective of a single tribe, with striking resemblance to many of the creation stories that preceded it.
You tell me how to "have it".
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
