If so, no wonder you're an Atheist.
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2006-06-29 10:57:19 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Absolutely not. Much scripture is metaphor and allegory. It's quite obvious.
2006-06-30 08:36:48 · answer #1 · answered by wrathpuppet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe the Bible should be used as a guide book. The majority of it contains wonderful looks into history. I've read the Bible through several times and have learned new and interesting things each time. No, I don't believe that it should be looked at in a purely literal sense, as much of it is figurative. As an example of what I refer to when I mention "guide book", think about the 10 Commandments. If everyone would follow those...the world would be a far better place.
2006-06-29 18:08:44 · answer #2 · answered by Angela 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is set in allegorical speech and it is seeped in types and shadows. In each world or age there were different things going on. In the age or world before the flood mankind just followed his imagination for the most part he lost his oneness with his creator because of the transgression in the Garden and that world or age ended in a flood.
In the second age or world God started appearing to mankind through visions and revelations and Moses was the first one to receive his name, he was called El Shaddi or the Almighty Provider before that. There was a law given which mankind couldn't keep. Men wrote what they saw God say and do thru these visions and revelations. These men were called prophets and that age or world continued until the death of the Messiah who came in to fulfill the law and was the end of the law written in pen and ink.
In the age or world we are in now, which began at Pentecost where the Holy Spirit was poured out. Now mankind can again know his creator as he really is and actually excist and he is revealing himself in mankind instead of to mankind. They call it grace because indeed it is a free gift.
The entire Bible is not literal but it is written to lead us up to the Messiah which is our salvation.
2006-06-29 18:24:46 · answer #3 · answered by musicisme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The writers of the bible never intended it to become a book at all. I mean some of it is just freaking letters from an apostle to other various people. Everyone who wrote something that went into the bible was long dead before the bible even existed.
2006-06-29 18:02:16 · answer #4 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is an atheist? If a person has a direct experience of God and KNOWS that God exists but sees that the gods worshipped in the various religions are really just the projections of people's ego thoughts, that person would be called an atheist when, in reality, the person would be rejecting the made-up gods. And when we talk about a direct experience, we don't mean the deluded set of ego experiences that range from internal voices to belief-based, feel-good experiences; we're talking about enlightenment experiences where one's whole identity is transcended and one experiences oneself as literally the whole universe.
Given the above, what do we think about the bible? We know that people who have not had direct experiences of God will project and create god in their own image. They will hear the words of people like Jesus and others and interpret them according to their own filters (it's one of the reasons Jesus used parables - to lessen the misinterpretation). Given that, it seems like lots of areas in the bible were written by people who did just that: misinterpreted Jesus' message. Lots of different writings existed and only a few were incorporated into the bible -- the few that appealed most to people (and this appeal means that it appealed to our human egos).
2006-06-29 18:07:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Goodness, no. It's a book of poems designed to teach lessons. If taken literally, there are so many logical flaws and contradictions that it defies comprehension. (God is omnipotent, but it takes SIX DAYS to create the Earth? And then He has to rest? What sense does that make?)
2006-06-29 18:01:02 · answer #6 · answered by -j. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, and I think the question of what is to be taken literally and what is not should be decided by the members of the religion, not me.
2006-06-29 18:04:57 · answer #7 · answered by kebyd 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the bible is a load of malarky meant to make money and create power. Mission accomplished!
2006-06-29 18:01:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually I'm an Atheist because I realized that the Bible has very little of what Jesus actually said in it.
2006-06-29 17:59:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, I am agnostic. Second, it is the fundementalists that believe evrything in the bible should be taken literally.
2006-06-29 18:01:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible is christian mythology, nothing more, so it deals entirely in parables and nothing should be taken literally.
2006-06-29 18:02:00 · answer #11 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋