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Allegorical.
Trying to make history a fact and calling it scripture is a difficult task. I mean, the news writers who write about today have a difficult job. You can't write about everything, because then you would have to write about writing, because that's all you would be doing. Writing instead of living, as there is so much to write about. So you have to decide what gets written and what gets left out. You want the reader to picture it just the way it is. If you just wrote about two people argueing the reader would think the whole argued, when infact everyone was at peace except these two. Now if this is the word of God, well then, you can decide who is right and who is wrong, so you don't have to worry about slanting the story, at least you have that in your favor.
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Origenes Adamantius ".... I do not suppose that anyone doubts that these things figuratively indicate certain mysteries, the history being apparently - but not literally - true ..." He put together the first bible, they say he died in prison.
"A fool says I know and a wise man says I wonder."
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