obadiah777: oh yes Jesus feeding five thousand people with 5 loaves and 2 fish is an allegory. what is fish ? ( to fish for souls ) what is oil ? what is milk ? what is bread ? what is meat ? what is oil ? they all mean THE WORD. so when he fed five thousand people with 5 loaves and 2 fishes, its allegory speech for saying 'he preached the word to 5000 people'


JOHN 6 VS 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

TinyPurpleBaby:

mee too Im addicted to you nairaland

obadiah777: i would tell you what the fish represents but to break it down seeing as the book of jonah is 4 chapters deep would require a herculean effort. but the fish represents the roman empire.

obadiah777: not with philfearon around, it wouldn't. he is a clown

oh by the way philfearon is a perpetual scoffer of mine

dr dams: Lobatan!! Plz , it seems everytin in d bible is Allegory by virtue of ur sku of thought..

Ok,.. Wen d Donkey spoke to balam, wud u say it was allegorical also?

obadiah777: well dayumm. this must be 'blame my nairaland addiction on obadiah day' smdh

A-town:


Can you prove your statement. If MAN wrote the bible, and we all know MAN lies, please tell me why anyone should believe what MAN wrote?
A lot of things have been twisted and lies told just to get people to believe. Again, please tell me how you know everything that was written actually happened because I find it hard to believe that those that wrote it are saints.

Reference:

You can infer anything out of the Word rightly or wrongly but the questions still stands. Did the content of these texts actually happen in life, time and space. The answer I believe is yes.

If you told Pontius Pilate that you are communicating with a group of faceless people on social media with a handheld device in real time, he'd probably order your designer cross for heresy.

The natural mind unable to handle things does nothing to negate their existence.

Unluvable*:


Not really familiar with monikers. Probably you pi.ss him off with your ideologies

*i created a thread on this section once and no single comment
Why evils

micoco: mehn....i pity u so much. Sounding so intelligent to urself, forming bad guy, kai! I pity u bro

TinyPurpleBaby:

Beccause everyday is 'Scoff at Obadiah day', we decided to create this day specially for you'

philfearon:
Its very clear you dont believe in God...Allow those that believe in Him be...Stop disgracing your ignorance in Public...

smart134:

the bible was written by God himself tru Men! Be wise

smart134:

i pity U..u need God in ur Life

tosnat:

You will understand... everyone will eventually..

SIR KOL!:
my dear, the power of God is beyond human comprehension so wat u r saying is out of place!! I guess if u have heard dat a powerful Juju man from Benin did such u would hv belvd without doubt

Its alphaa: how big do u think the biggest fishes in the world are

hayubee: A whale is a mammal and not a fish! Me thinks its a shark cos datz the biggest fish!

thehomer:

Do you think an adult male can live in a shark for three days?

obadiah777: well dayumm. scripture do say in the last days there will be scoffers. end time tinz i tell ya

2 peter 3 vs 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

obadiah777: jonah may have been a midget though ? like aki and pawpaw

JK of course. story is purely allegorical

Reference:

Then write your version and let's see how easy it will be to add, subtract, modify, modernise or anything you desire and then get it accepted as the 'WORD'. Don't you think that with all the advancement in the arts and sciences the bible would have been swept aside and replaced by a socially correct epistle. The truth is that it is not possible.

The Bible tells us how it was written, by whom and when. It is open, nothing hidden. It speaks about us not some alien on Pandora.

thehomer:

I pity you so much. Sounding dull and actually being ignorant. I pity you bro.

TinyPurpleBaby:

all these for the greater good. All this to show tht you are doing the lords work. So if I were you Id have a beer for every scoffer.

thehomer:

Did the writers believe it was allegorical? If so, what did they think Jonah, the boat, the sea, Nineveh and the sailors represented?

~ZN~:


What? Are you a child to believe santa claus exists?

obadiah777: modify the quote. i modified my post slightly

mcfynest: THE STORY IS ALLEGORICAL....GOD AINT NO MAGIC MAN NOR A VOODOO MAN...... LETS STOP DEBATING THINGS THAT DONT NEED....


SEA= PEOPLE

FISH[ ROMAN EMPIRE(GENTILE NATION)


PUT 1+1 TOGETHER.....

and i belief jonah aint a person....its a nation.....

obadiah what do you think....
i am still a leaning at the master's feet though...

philfearon:
didnt see anytin different!