“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!”
I saw this episode like ten years ago and then when I started doing Bible studies it resonated with me. See, I wondered how many things are in the Bible that are taken literally that were actually metaphors? The meanings of those metaphors are lost to time so we’re taking them seriously.
Like when you call something ‘cool’ or ‘wicked’. It’s a metaphor but say in two thousand years people read about how things were cool and wicked in the 20th and 21st centuries and they might wonder how cold it was and how evil our culture was because they don’t know these metaphors.
Ugh. You came to the diametrically opposite interpretation to mine.
What is so terrifying about the Biblical stories being true? What in the "old testament" is any less believable than a "virgin birth???"