Bible as Allegory

When a person considers the content, scope, and application, of redaction criticism scripture scholarship which is based upon hermeneutics, one begins to see that the various books of the Bible were written in a mode of consciousness which does not involve the notion of literal fact. Instead, we can see that the Bible is Allegory, that is, the Bible is written in an Allegorical Style. In the ancient world, when the Bible was written, the hard and fast distinction between fact and fiction, which is a hallmark of modernist consciousness, was not present. In fact, we can understand that Allegory is a mode of consciousness or reality which is halfway between Fact and Fiction. Thus, the Bible is more like Poetry or Song Lyrics, rather than a written business report. The Bible appeals to the Analogical Imagination (Greeley), which involves Analogical Logic, not merely Analytic Logic. Thus, the Bible is in the same mode as Quantum Physics, where meaning affects reality, and thus, where, there is room for Magic and Miracles, not just some cold, uncaring, athiest materialist universe. Thus, the Biblical Miracles are not only possible, but probable, and are filled with Deep Meaning. Thus, the Bible subtley discloses the Meaning and Nature of Reality.

(C)Copyright 2011 by Anthony J. Fejfar