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Originally posted by Baal
It's not a matter of "figuring out" metaphores to people who believe in the bible as being the literal word of God. If God said it, then it's true to these folks. The bible is filled with statements about the 4 corners of the earth, the ends of the earth, heaven being above the earth, etc. These statements *cannot* be true if the earth is spherical.
I'm sure you can go as far as to say that anything in the bible is a metaphore, including creation, God, the Garden of Eden, the 10 commandments, etc. But the folks who believe the bible to be the literal word of God do not believe that they are metaphores; they believe them to be facts straight from the mouth of God. And that was my point.
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Heaven above earth? =http://www.gty.org/bible_faqs/bible_content.php?qa=heaven3.htm
The Bible is in laymens terms. If everything were explained in detail it would be a book you could never read in your lifetime and one that earthly creatures could never understand.
Such as.....
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
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We all know that the sun and moon aren't merely "lights". However, try explaining not only what the sun and moon are but how they were created to people that have never seen more than a few hundred miles of earth in their lifetime. Now apply that to every detail that would have to be in the Bible and we're talking hundreds of years of reading. That's to say if a human could even understand details such as how the Earth was created, how the Sun works, that the Universe is unbelievably large, that the earth is round and spinning and that's what holds us to the ground, etc.....
Get over it, it is a metaphor. The Bible is filled with them. If it weren't people would die reading it without ever seeing the end.
