can all contradictions in the bible be "corrected" by turning it into a metaphor?

Answer 1

Either that or admit the bible is full of it.

Metaphor or not, the bible is still full of it.

Answer 2

There are not really any contradictions in the Bible when we understand the Bible. God does not err. However, the Bible never claim to be perfect. There are a lot of evidence to prove that the Bible is very reliable. I believe that the Bible is inspired word of God. There are Bible difficulties, but they can be overcome by deeper study of the message.

Answer 3

One cannot make contradictions vanish by invoking metaphor. But often times apparently contradictory language indicates that the authors knew themselves to be using mythical, metaphorical and/or symbolic language. For instance, the fact that the final author/editor placed the two creation accounts in Genesis 1-3 side-by-side seems to me to indicate not the ineptitude of the author/editor, but the fact that this individual felt these two stories could be appreciated in spite of the discrepancies of chronology and of various details.

To give another example, telling stories of miraculous births was the way people expressed their admiration for an individual's greatness in the ancient world. Might the mistake lie not with the authors who wrote such stories and who presumably knew they were not historical, but instead with the modern-day fundamentalists and atheists who both read the stories with the assumption that the stories are either inerrantly-recorded history or lies?

Answer 4

Contradictions in the Bible can be corrected by understanding that the Bible was written by a dozen authors over hundreds of years. It is still the best history book written about the BC. times and a very accurate account of Christs life.

Answer 5

My GOD, YES!
The Bible is, however, part man. It was written by man, literally: men.
The best way to rule out any contradictions in the Bible is to remember that truth coincides with truth and is eternal; and untruth needs truth to live. Through untruth you will find the light.
Anything in the Bible that seems outdated is of man.


Jesus spoke in metaphors, why is the Bible exempt?

Answer 6

There are no contradictions in the Bible concerning the message of salvation, which is the sole purpose of the Bible. Anyone who wants to waste his time digging up trivial inconsistencies concerning historical dates and scientific principles really needs to find a hobby. Such matters are completely irrelevant to the message of the Bible, and therefore no-one who is aware of the purpose of the Bible will waste time "correcting" such irrelevancies.

Answer 7

No. Some contradictions are just that, contradictions. Take the books of Samuel and Kings. Those books were written about the same time period, but by different perspectives. Also, each person who was writing about certain things had their own agenda they wanted to emphasize.

Answer 8

Science has rules, science has ways of interpreting data, Science has variables that can influence outcome.
Theology has rules Theology has rules for interpreting scripture--Hermeneutics, Theology has doctrines that can influence Faith

Science has "a hunch" they follow--a Faithful try
Theology has Faith

You must be indoctrinated in Science--to move to higher levels of research.

You must exhibit Faith to move to higher levels of Theology

Study Hermeneutics and learn the difficulty of interpretation.

Then attach with a knowledge base don't go to some web site and pick someone elses study to cut and paste.

Answer 9

yes a collection of fables, parables, dramatic retellings of historic events and other " Uses of Enchantment" Bruno Bettelheim posited that if people from an early age were allowed to read about the trials, tribulations, successes and failures encountered by the heroes of fairy tales, this would better prepare them for the trials, tribulations, successes and failures that they will encounter in their own lives.

Answer 10

Yes, but in doing so, you're discrediting everything in the Bible that you take as fact. The circular logic it takes to be Christian makes my head spin.