THE BIBLE SAYS DO NOT TAKE IT LITERALLY
Psalm 78:2. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Proverbs 1 :4 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Galatians 4 :24.Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
2 Corinthians 3:7.Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit:for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
"My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally"
John Dominic Crossan, "Who is Jesus"?        
       
After talking to the bush,. Moses opens the Red Sea so that his followers can cross over but when the bad guys followers chase the good guys the Red Sea closes down on them. Sound like some mythology to you ? In addition to this, Moses the hero of this story has a walking stick. A cane. When he lays it down it turns into snake. There is a beautiful explanation. When you lay down dependence on yourself represented by the spine (the snake) it turns into the winding serpent Kundalini. You have another hero and his job is to take two of every kind of animal on a boat to escape a flood. Two of every kind of animal on a boat. You have a woman who is over 90 years of age, gets pregnant and has a child. A man who is swallowed by a large fish and lives inside the stomach of the fish for 3 days and 3 nights. You have a man who leads a group of people blowing horns around a town and on the 7th time around the walls fall down and they overrun the city.You have a very strong man who loses his strength when his hair is cut. A man sees things flying through the sky and they land and they have the faces of lions, men, oxs and eagles. A bunch of bones in the desert start to move and dance around and then flesh covers the bones as they are dancing around in the desert. You have 3 men tossed into an oven and the fire is heated up to a roar and when someone looks into the oven they are sitting around talking with another person. You have a hand with no arm that floats into a room and begins writing on a wall. And of course on top of all of this you have the virgin birth, the resurrection out of the grave. The ascension. A man actually flying up into the sky. A man being raised out of a grave who has been dead 4 days. A man walking on the water. An incident where a man who is to pay his taxes goes fishing and finds the money in the fishs mouth.And of course, the ultimate mythology upon which our western culture is based.God required a human sacrifice so he had his son born of a virgin and sent down to be crucified so the blood would flow and God could then forgive you and me. This being done the human who was sacrificed then rose from the dead and flew up into heaven. This we have chosen to be a literal fact.Oh I almost forgot about the lady is turned into a pillar of salt. Great for popcorn but literally? And she was married to one of Gods chosen people who was saved out of the fires of Sodom and Gomorrah. So this guy Lot celebrated his god fortune by taking his two daughters up to a mountain and having sex with them. Gods chosen guy. On and on and on with the wild stories finally ending with Revelation and the beast with 7 heads and ten horns.
Some years ago, George and Ira Gershwin wrote a song that went like this.
It ain't necessarily so, It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable to read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so
