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Originally Posted by john76  The question, though, is how did the New Testament have the effect that it did if it was originally only interpreted as metaphorical insight? | At what period in time? In the era when Muhammed was writing the Qu'Ran, he would read passages to believers and unbelievers numbering from several people at mass to hundreds in a crowd. He undoubtedly told them every word as literal. Do you think it would be any different a few hundred years before when the Bible emerged?
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And on we walked. Suddenly we heard a voice crying, "This is the sea. This is the deep sea. This is the vast and mighty sea." And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
—Gibran Khalil Gibran, “The Greater Sea.” |