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Originally Posted by Humanitarismus
as stated above i think it is very obvious that it is impossibile to proof or refutate the miraculous stories of the bible.
thus it is only possibile to interpret the bible in a allegoric way. in my point of view it is very primitive to read word for word of the bible and to applicate word for word on the world. there are also scientist which believe in god and evolution. there is no reason why the bible contradicts evolutionary theory if you interpret the bible allegoric. you will often find allegoric interpretations in history in that periods of civilisations in which dominate wealth and security.
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Yes. The Bible appears to me to be more about the
why, not the
how. I think it is essential to read as allegory. I haven't read enough of the Bible, nor do I know enough about its history, but isn't it considered the word of God, not a journal of happenings?
Even the
Dhammapada uses allegory, as do many other ancient texts, I'm sure. In it the Buddha says:
Killing mother and father, and two warrior kings, killing a kingdom with all its subjects, the priestly one goes untroubled.
-Miscellany, XXI
An everyday practictioner--the kind Buddha taugh himself--was not expected to kill their parents or their rulers or their entire society. Here is a legend to what Buddha teaches here:
- Mother and father = greed and conceit
- Two warrior kings = grasping and rejecting
- The kingdom with all its subjects = the totality of the individual's experience of life in the domain of conditioned existence.
(From the
Dhammapada, trans. Thomas Cleary)
It would be folly to read this passage literally. Why would we do it the Bible? Ancient literature is
heavily allegorical. Allegory is a teaching tool. Realist literature didn't come about in any large sense until the 19th century.