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MineralMan

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39. Oh, my...

Reply to FBaggins (Reply #38)

Mon Dec 17, 2018, 08:34 PM

Dec 2018

OK, then. Real good, then...

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If the Bible is primarily metaphorical or allegorical, it's a work of fiction. [View all] MineralMan Dec 2018 OP

keep swinging away don Fullduplexxx Dec 2018 #1

Don? MineralMan Dec 2018 #2

+1000 demosincebirth Dec 2018 #5

I think the whole question was best examined in this (admittedly fictitious) scene: DFW Dec 2018 #3

Very good, indeed! MineralMan Dec 2018 #4

My absolute most favorite scene in the entire series of West Wing!!!! nt AZ8theist Dec 2018 #16

I have many DFW Dec 2018 #17

I have many as well, ... AZ8theist Dec 2018 #20

I think CJ and the General is a little better, but this is close :) /nt LongtimeAZDem Dec 2018 #29

IMO it's for sure some of it was LSD inspired and/or written by psychos. And then there are the RKP5637 Dec 2018 #6

Reductio ad absurdum FBaggins Dec 2018 #7

So which one(s) don't include hocus pocus? Major Nikon Dec 2018 #10

An excellent question. MineralMan Dec 2018 #12

Or... Major Nikon Dec 2018 #15

Well, I saw a talking mule on TV. MineralMan Dec 2018 #23

Might be from the other side of the gene pool tho Major Nikon Dec 2018 #24

Which ones are "clearly historical"? Act_of_Reparation Dec 2018 #11

Another excellent question. MineralMan Dec 2018 #13

The point you're missing... FBaggins Dec 2018 #38

Oh, my... MineralMan Dec 2018 #39

Yes, explain to us dummies what history is. Act_of_Reparation Dec 2018 #40

What's absurd is any claim that any part of the Bible MineralMan Dec 2018 #14

Ah, c'mon, Mineral!! AZ8theist Dec 2018 #18

Well, there's that. MineralMan Dec 2018 #22

While they have found towns mentioned in the bible, Nantucket also exists, LakeSuperiorView Dec 2018 #21

Jesus metaphored over the Sea of Galilee, which does exist Major Nikon Dec 2018 #25

What, no cream cheese? LakeSuperiorView Dec 2018 #27

There had to be metaphorical condiments to go with the metaphorical lox. Major Nikon Dec 2018 #30

The schmear goes without saying. MineralMan Dec 2018 #33

I already dispute the "nonfiction" classification DFW Dec 2018 #19

Easier to pretend talking snakes, donkeys, and bushes are real Major Nikon Dec 2018 #28

History? edhopper Dec 2018 #31

There you have it. Fiction guarded WhiteTara Dec 2018 #8

More analogous to the Iliad & the Odyssey, IMO, but certainly you are correct. malchickiwick Dec 2018 #9

historical fiction... handmade34 Dec 2018 #26

God did not write edhopper Dec 2018 #32

Thank goodness. God spoke Elizabethan English. MineralMan Dec 2018 #34

And it was after the great vowel shift. edhopper Dec 2018 #35

Food for thought? guillaumeb Dec 2018 #36

Nothing wrong with leftovers. MineralMan Dec 2018 #37