bluer0ses: and the rib question ?
jbaltz24601: in terms of the rib: I understand it strictly metaphorically.
bluer0ses: ok and the age of the earth?
jbaltz24601: and I have quite a large number of traditional biblical commentators who agree with me :-)
jbaltz24601: likewise metaphorical.
jbaltz24601: as is the entire genesis story - 
bluer0ses: so nothing is true
bluer0ses: its a buch of metophorical bs
bluer0ses: so nothing written in the bible is actual fact
bluer0ses: is what you are syaing
jbaltz24601: the laws are actual fact
bluer0ses: but they are based on metophorical bs
jbaltz24601: the stories are by and large metaphorical
jbaltz24601: 'bs' is in the eye of the beholder/besmeller.
bluer0ses: you said yourself it wasn't true
bluer0ses: so that makes it bs
jbaltz24601: i did not say 'not true' I said 'metaphorical'
jbaltz24601: on phone...
jbaltz24601: ring ring
bluer0ses: haha
bluer0ses: you didn't use "not true" but thats what you mean isn't it
jbaltz24601: very verbose client talking about 'openexchange'
jbaltz24601: true in the context of the lessons to be taught; true within its own hermeneutics.
bluer0ses: true as in
bluer0ses: the world is either 5763 years old
bluer0ses: or isn't
jbaltz24601: it isn't.
bluer0ses: snakes talk?
bluer0ses: eating bad apples
bluer0ses: etc
jbaltz24601: it is the nature of miracles to not happen every day :-)
bluer0ses: miracles do not happen period
bluer0ses: whens the last one?
jbaltz24601: on the contrary; they happen all the time
bluer0ses: yes david blane
bluer0ses: in a coffin for 4 dys
jbaltz24601: the chances of a child making it to maturity alone
bluer0ses: that is not a miracle
jbaltz24601: are astronomically small :-)
bluer0ses: that is just math
bluer0ses: odd
bluer0ses: s