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Originally Posted by nroberts
That would be reasonable but the author isn't very good at getting his point across then. For that matter we could even wonder if the story ever happened if it, itself, isn't just allegory invented by some author to put forth an idea. I mean, if that's the way it is with part, why not the whole?
That said, let's consider other things. Do you believe the miracles that occured in Acts are tellings of things that really happened or some sort of metephor for something?
If the former, this also raises the question as to why it wasn't documented elsewhere. Certainly rumors of magic occuring would have attracted the eye of historians. Why didn't they check out this Jesus fellow?
If the latter, what, exactly, really IS real in the Bible then?
But that's just put forward. I'm gone for the weekend.
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That is the ultimate question, isn't it? Much of the Bible is a matter of faith and faith alone. It's too hard to tell what parts are metaphorical and which parts are literal. But just because some parts are allegorical doesn't mean the whole is. As for me, I'd like to believe in miracles, and I think I've seen at least one in my life, but if they are definitively real or not is another story. I don't know.