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Do you believe the Bible is Folklore?

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  • 6 years ago
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    Folklore, myth, poetry and philosophy. Beautiful stuff... Sometimes.

    Source(s): Christian
  • ?
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    Technically, the Bible is considered folklore for stories such as Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, Jonah and the Whale, Moses and the Red Sea....etc.

    There is also the fact that not everyone takes the Bible literally, word for word. Some passages get marked as a "parable", which implies that the Bible is not a hundred percent truth.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    In answering those who would reject many portions of Genesis as fables or folklore, Wilhelm Möller says: “I do not think that it can be made plausible, that in any race fables and myths came in the course of time more and more to be accepted as actual facts, so that perchance we should now be willing to accept as historical truths the stories of the Nibelungenlied or Red Riding Hood. But this, according to the critics, must have been the case in Israel.” (The International Standard Bible Encyclopædia, edited by J. Orr, 1960, Vol. II, p. 1209) He goes on to point out that the prophets accepted the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as correct (Isa 1:9; Am 4:11) and that they accepted Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph as real persons. (Isa 29:22; Mic 7:20) Not only this, but in the Christian Greek Scriptures, Abraham is mentioned in many places, even by Jesus Christ at Matthew 22:32, in connection with the argument about the resurrection. If Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had not really lived, Jesus would have used another illustration.—Mt 22:31-33.

    The Bible is not myths or folklore--even if I stand alone, I will trust God's word!

  • 6 years ago

    The bible consists of many books. Some of it is folklore.

  • 6 years ago

    prophecies written 2000+ years ago are fulfilling in these times. I don't see how that's a folklore.

  • 6 years ago

    No. The bible was ahead of the scientist about how the Universe was created. They studied for years to discover their theories when all the time it is in the bible.

    God is real.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    i believe the old testament was preserved by the jews as best as could be. English translations are NOT perfect so to believe in the inerrency of english bibles is believe a false teaching.

  • 6 years ago

    A mix of Folklore and myth

  • Jim V
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    No

    It is an account of God's interaction with mankind.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    The bible is symbolic - like one big dream that only the upright or righteous can interpret.

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