This article appeared earlier in Dutch (in 2002) in a periodical issued by the Reformed Students Association (GSV) in Groningen, Netherlands. Later I decided to put it out on my weblog in Dutch, because a lot of people thought it was a good article and a good read. I now translated it to English to make it available for a wider audience. I want to stress the fact I am NOT a theologian now, nor was I back in 2002 when I wrote it. I also wrote it as a Reformed Presbyterian student, NOT as a Catholic. This means that this article doesn’t necessarily reflects Catholic theology.
Back in 2002, I decided to write the article as a reaction in a running discussion on the ‘historicity of the Bible’. At the one hand you had people who believed in a ‘biblical/legalistic way’ that everything that is written down in the Bible equals Truth in the most literal sense, the Bible has to taken very literally. Other people, at the other hand, were of the opinion that the Bible is a book of people who tried to make sense of the world. Stories are not to be taken literally, but have merely a symbolic meaning. In between those sides there were also the people at the university being very critical at anything that is remotely attached to religion, having the sceptical attitude “if it cannot be proven to be true, it’s false.”
In this article I try to reach out to all those people, by addressing the issue from multiple sides. I want to show they are all a bit right, but they could be all a bit wrong also.
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