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Originally Posted by Herodotus
I don't think the Bible was meant to be taken literally...
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You would be right if you meant it was designed to be taken according to your state of being. The stories apart from being stories invariably have a moral to them and taken all together they point toward a goal. The lowest state is literal--intellectually stimulating--for the average person. You purposely write in a way that draws in the literal person. But you also design the story so it will instruct him as his state of being develops. It's a common religious mode of teaching; you relate a factual event so as to convey a moral and then give credit for the event to a supernatural power so that the moral is indisputable. BTW, I am not saying it's trickery; biblical writers were teachers who had something they wanted to convey to people in the present and the future.
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So what's the controversy?
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Literal people musing.
