ScazarMeltex posted...
They were career theologians, most were in their 70s and had 3 to 4 decades of experience in the field. They had studied multiple historical versions of the Bible in half a dozen languages. As far as scholars about biblical matters go they knew their shit.
One of them always used to piss off one of the younger priests because he argued that most of the stuff in the new testament was allegorical. Specifically about three magi who followed the star and brought the three gifts to birth of Christ. He argued that it was not literally three dudes following a star. That it was instead an allegory for the peoples who would come to Christianity through the light Christ brought to the world.
That being said, I was at the time and still am, a slightly agnostic atheist. So it was all academic to me, they were cool to talk to and had tons of interesting takes on religious matters that you don't get from your typical American person.
That doesn't prove events that happen in the spirit realm. Just that they know what the Bible claims. But that is not scientific evidence.