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That's not what you said.
Was there or was there not a son that did the things the prodigal son did? Did he say the things Jesus said he said? How did Jesus know? If the story was common, why not just say 'Shaka, when the walls fell'?Or he borrowed a common story from real life, such as the "sower" parable. I'm sure that farming was a real activity then. Most of his parables were instantly recognized as common events.
@OldWiseGuy, I notice you haven't answered this.Can one not draw lessons from The Great Gatsby or the Lord of the Rings?
It's entirely possible. How do you know that He did not?
@OldWiseGuy, I notice you haven't answered this.
How about spiritual lessons from The Scarlet Letter?
Nor mine, but many creationists put a great deal of stock in the notion that Genesis is 100% accurate literal history, as if God could not have written it any other way. I just wondered if there was a reason for it. Christian denominations which entertain a figurative interpretation seem to draw exactly the same basic doctrines from it as creationists.Not a burning question in my mind.
Doesn't matter. Can one derive spiritual lessons from an entirely fictional story?Is there anything uncommon about the story (I haven't read it)?
Nor mine, but many creationists put a great deal of stock in the notion that Genesis is 100% accurate literal history, as if God could not have written it any other way. I just wondered if there was a reason for it. Christian denominations which entertain a figurative interpretation seem to draw exactly the same basic doctrines from it as creationists.
Doesn't matter. Can one derive spiritual lessons from an entirely fictional story?
Cool. Does that mean that you can get spiritual direction from the flood story even if the flood never happened?Of course. Star Trek was a morality play.
Cool. Does that mean that you can get spiritual direction from the flood story even if the flood never happened?
Can an entirely fictional story have the same spritual lesson as a story based on a real event?Sure, but that's no fun. I like musing about the flood and the ark.
Can an entirely fictional story have the same spritual lesson as a story based on a real event?
Why?
But you were talking about the flood earlier. You were not a participant.Your just an observer of a story. You are a participant in real life.
But you were talking about the flood earlier. You were not a participant.
That has nothing to do with your claim that the Babylonian stories could have borrowed from Genesis.Moses didn't write it as a news story, but as history.
But you were talking about the flood earlier. You were not a participant.
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