I think everyone here is settled with the fact that not everything in the Bible is "true" (meaning, they are not LITERALLY true). So the question now is, how much of the scriptures are LITERAL accounts of events, and how much of it are just symbolic passages ?

Who wants to take a stab on this question: Why is it that the miracles narrated in the Bible only took place within the Bible?? Sure, we have the great flood analysis or the low tide theory that supposedly describes the parting of the Red Sea ..... but what about miracles in modern times ?????

Do we have:

1) a burning bush that talks
2) talking mountain
3) deaf who can hear, blind who can see at an instant
4) modern day Lazarus

It is as if, after the last pages of the Bible were written, everything about Christianity has ceased taking place, and from that point thereafter, people started to simply "quote from the Bible".