Apocalypse Quote by Northrop Frye

“The bible when taken metaphorically, provides us the truth about god; but when taken literally, the bible provides as the truth about man.”

— Joey Lawsin

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

— Mark Twain

“The Bible is the saga of Yahweh and Adam, the prodigal son and his ever gracious heavenly father; humanity in their rebellion and God…

— Sandra L. Richter

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision…

— Northrop Frye

“The destiny of the Logos was not to be caged in a book or a doctrine but to be documented and unveiled in human…

— François Du Toit

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

— Wallace Stevens

Religion is a huge part of our consciousness. I grew up in the Bible Belt, so it's our mythology. Those are the stories we…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic…

— Jon Meacham

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

— Dan Brown

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

— Todd Gitlin

The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.

— Fred Hammond

“Insofar as believing artists claim this big biblical story as their own, their overall bodies of their work ought to convey its fundamental plot…

— David K. Naugle