How much of the Bible is literally correct?

[Aeson]

Just the parts that we're all sinners and deserve everlasting hellfire. Except me of course.

[Thorn]

In the new testament everyone misses the basic idea that you should love thy neighbor (help others) and that superfolusly rich particularly greedy people are the true evil of the world.... everyone gets lost in the details...

I'd say knowing what i know about the world, its about 30% accurate.

[Berzerker]

maybe Jonah got into a boat of some kind and the witnesses were either too far away to tell or fish-like boat became fish with a translation.

[MOBIUS]

some of it must be true - surely!?

[MOBIUS]

gribbles is being silly

So you're saying 1/3 of Americans are silly...?

[Cort Haus]

No, I'm saying he was silly when he said in the poll that 100% of the bible is true. I suspect that is not really his view.

[giblets]

What makes you think I don't really believe a 600 year old man built a wooden ship that was substantially larger than any wooden ship that can be made with modern technology, collected two of every animal species on earth and enough food to feed them for a year, then lived in the boat for a year while God flooded the entire planet, covering the tallest mountains under 20 feet of water, drowning everything not on the boat? Then they and the animals got out and repopulated the earth with lots and lots of incest.

[giblets]

Miraculously, all of the fresh, salty, and brackish water fish were able to survive together in the same global sea.

[dannubis]

The beauty of those numbers is you get to choose which parts you want to be correct.

Exactely. You just have eloquently described the core of organized religion. You are my hero of today!

[MOBIUS]

Yeah, it's funny how the religion many people believe in is purely down to their own personal preference...

[Drogue]

some of it must be true - surely!?

Yes, but like a stopped watch, it being right occasionally doesn't give it much credence.

I'm sure it's roughly right on the general history points, but since so much of it talks about specific individuals and the details of history, which I don't believe in, there's very little I'd consider to be literally correct.

[Proteus_MST]

I´d go with 30-40%...
for example some parts that cover the history of the jewish tribe
as well as parts that cover the voyages of the evangelists
(of course not all of said parts [Jericho for example, which probably wasn´t detroyed by the jews, but already was in ruins, when the jewish tribes traveled there])

[MOBIUS]

Yes, but like a stopped watch, it being right occasionally doesn't give it much credence.

I'm sure it's roughly right on the general history points, but since so much of it talks about specific individuals and the details of history, which I don't believe in, there's very little I'd consider to be literally correct.

Well, I did go for the 0-10% rating...

[loinburger]

What confuses me is when somebody says that the bible is 100% correct, but that they haven't read 100% of the bible. If I had God's word in writing then I'd probably want to read it.