mike_decock

Where do you draw the line between myth and history? Good Samaritan, Noah's Flood, Jonah, Miracles, Resurrections?

-Mike...

seebs

A good question, and one I don't have very strong opinions on. My general assumptions are that anything which sounds like myth is myth, all parables are parables... I'm agnostic on the bulk of the miracles, but I tend to accept the Resurrection simply because the stories about it involved people who were there when some of this stuff was written - this is by contrast with the Genesis stories, written down much later by someone being told about them. Basically, around the time of the gospels, we start having a group of people who supposedly saw this stuff, and, we are told, those are some of the people who wrote this stuff down. (Obviously, there's some questions about how much of it they wrote down, and how much of it was oral tradition for a hundred years or so.)