One day will the entire bible be viewed by all christians as just metaphors?

No..When asked to describe my thoughts on GOD and Religion my train of thought led me right to gravity. . .

You can’t see gravity, You can’t taste it, I just know one thing for certain, that it exists.

The mystery's of faith an GOD are beyond human comprehension

Faith concerns questions which cannot be settled by evidence.

I feel bad that if someone does not have faith they would want others to agree with them!

How can the universe create itself out of nothingness? Given the fact that the universe began to exist, it must have had a “cause” that originated it.Doesn't it make more sense to assume the existence of a Creation. The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that GOD came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, “What does blue smell like?” Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, GOD is not in the category of things that are created or caused. GOD is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists.

We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing being is what we call GOD ,GOD is the un-caused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.

The universe requires a cause because it had a beginning, GOD unlike the universe, had no beginning, so he doesn’t need a cause. Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which has much experimental support, shows that time is linked to matter and space. So time itself would have begun along with matter and space. Since GOD is the creator of the whole universe, he is the creator of time. Therefore He is not limited by the time dimension He created..@

Life without GOD is like an un- sharpened pencil it has no point..

You can't see the wind, but you know it is there because you can see what the wind is doing. You can know that the wind is there because you can feel it.GOD is like the wind, you can't see him

Actually, you've got truth on its head. A lot of folks assume this, and it never was the way things were.

Actually the way of looking at the world has changed over the years, but back in the day, literal truth was unimportant. It's virtually impossible for us to understand the way they looked at the world, but it probably had to do with the difficulty in establishing any actual facts.

Philosophers, for instance, argued that the relationship of the diameter of a circle to its circumference (pi) was three. Why? Because they simply had no way to measure it accurately. To us today, this is almost impossible to get our heads around.

The Bible is probably mostly written in poetry. There's a kind of a reason for that. Truth was a poetic function.

If you could write your thoughts in elegant poetic devices (and books like James and Hebrews are very sophistocated examples of this), that was seen as validation of your thoughts, not whether they hung together logically. Again, this is impossible for us to even imagine today, so immersed are we in the world of measurable and well defined concepts.

No, the idea of literal truth in the Bible, AS WE UNDERSTAND IT TODAY, only began in the 1800s.

Before that, it was mostly poetic interpretation.

However, you do have a point, in that the literalist view seems to be slowly withering away. And none too soon.

False worship is to focus on the image rather than the object, to glorify the example rather than the principle, to read the text rather than the context. Not just the Bible, but the entire happennings in the universe are 'written' in the same style, by the same 'writership'. Anyone with 'eyes' can decode the metaphors. The 'deaf, dumb and blind' will forever be stuck (unawares) in literal translations. How poetic!

no christians will never view the whole bible as metaphor

no your wrong

christians still see the things that were fact are still fqact

false or pretend christians make things metaphors that are considered fact by a real christian

If its in there , its fact ., no metaphor ,.it just is .

If the human brain / mind cant grasp it that isnt the Bibles problem .

It is 100% Word of God , And He is not a man that He should lie .

The pattern seems to be that slowly over the course of Western civilization, adherence to the Bible from literal interpretation to metaphorical interpretation seems to be when secular thinking, beliefs, and morality gain dominance in a certain portion of society. Christians than refer to the certain passages as metaphorical, so they can dodge the moral implications that usually entail in such passages,

No of course not, the stories are very real in the bible, but one has to ask the Lord for the gift of the Holy spirit to see how these stories shows God's love, justice and guidance for us.

That's how I view it, which doesn't really count because I'm an atheist. But that's also how my girlfriend views it, who is a devout Catholic. Seriously, water turning into wine? Snakes and burning bushes talking? And then stuff like in Leveticus, God hates people with rounded hair and God hates people who eat ham. I mean, come on. Who the hell would think this is fact?

The Bible is the word of God. One day our Lord will rule on earth for 1,000 years, and then bring us home to heaven for an eternity.

No, for example, we would NEVER take the story of the Lord Jesus Christ as metaphors, the story of the Kingdom of Israel, the Prophets...etc.