# The Bible as Parable and Not History, and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 17 Apr 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/17/26), Hank comments on statements made by Bill Maher that the entirety of the Bible was not meant to be read as history, but as parable. Hank also answers the following questions: Can you explain the meaning of 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 with respect to building upon the foundation of Christ and testing with fire? Alan - Oklahoma City, OK (7:12) Can you define praying in the Spirit? Duncan - High River, AB (8:50) What about the ministries of Joseph Prince and Joyce Meyer? Reliable teachers? Jim - WA (15:14) What about the Gap Theory between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2? Paul - Vancouver, BC (21:41)

## Transcript

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[0:48] Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Randy. It is a delight to
[0:50] Speaker 2: be in studio as we answer your questions throughout the
[0:54] Speaker 2: United States and Canada. I want to say just a
[0:56] Speaker 2: few words before we go to our callers. Doing a
[1:00] Speaker 2: lot of research over the last couple of days, and
[1:03] Speaker 2: in the process I have been watching Bill Maher and
[1:07] Speaker 2: he says some of the most amazing things, including the
[1:13] Speaker 2: Bible was not meant to be history. It was not
[1:19] Speaker 2: meant to be literal. They were parables. People read it
[1:25] Speaker 2: back then and read into it something that was not literal.
[1:32] Speaker 2: We're the dummies who read it literally. Well, is he right?
[1:39] Speaker 2: Is the Bible merely parabolic? Is it true that the
[1:46] Speaker 2: Bible was not meant as history? Well, Interestingly enough, the
[1:52] Speaker 2: answer is found in the word genre. Grasping genre or
[2:00] Speaker 2: form is crucial in understanding what a text means by
[2:06] Speaker 2: what the text says. In other words, to interpret the
[2:11] Speaker 2: Bible as literature, it's always crucial to consider the kind
[2:18] Speaker 2: of literature that you are interpreting. Where visionary imagery is
[2:24] Speaker 2: the governing genre, it's foolhardy to interpret literalistically. On the
[2:31] Speaker 2: other hand, where historical narrative is pre eminent, it is
[2:36] Speaker 2: imperative not to over spiritualize. Bill Maher is right to
[2:45] Speaker 2: associate parables with the Bible, but to do so exclusively
[2:51] Speaker 2: is absurd. Of course, no one applied the power of
[2:58] Speaker 2: parable with greater effect than Jesus. In Luke sixteen, he
[3:03] Speaker 2: chronicled the parable of a rich man and a beggar
[3:06] Speaker 2: named Lazarus, who was covered with sores and longing to
[3:10] Speaker 2: eat what fell from the rich man's table, and time
[3:15] Speaker 2: both died, their roles immediately reversed, the beggar found himself
[3:22] Speaker 2: comforted in Abraham's bosomed the rich man experiencing the foretaste
[3:29] Speaker 2: of eternal torment. Too late he paid attention to the
[3:35] Speaker 2: beggar lying by his gait. Too late, a postponed repentance.
[3:43] Speaker 2: Too late, he heeded the testimony, the law and the prophets.
[3:48] Speaker 2: Too late, too late, too late, Like a heat seeking missile,
[3:56] Speaker 2: the parable of Jesus Christ always hit its mark. Hopefully
[4:03] Speaker 2: the heart of a punmeister will be next. The point
[4:07] Speaker 2: here is to acknowledge that the Bibles replete with parables,
[4:10] Speaker 2: but that is hardly the extent of the matter. Scripture
[4:15] Speaker 2: is a treasure chest that abounds in literary genres, genres
[4:20] Speaker 2: ranging from poetry to psalms, to historical narratives, didactic epistles,
[4:27] Speaker 2: apocalyptic revelations. We must see the Bible once again as
[4:31] Speaker 2: a treasure chest. Tragically, our postmodern culture does not appreciate
[4:38] Speaker 2: literature the way our ancestors did. We do science well,
[4:44] Speaker 2: but we don't do literature well. We know how to
[4:47] Speaker 2: read Sagan and Dawkins, but seem ill equipped to read
[4:54] Speaker 2: Shakespeare and Dante. One must, ever, remember that the language
[4:58] Speaker 2: of Scripture is a heavenly cunduce, so that we might
[5:01] Speaker 2: apprehend both the nature and purposes of an infinite God.
[5:07] Speaker 2: Failure to consider genre leads to a host of unintended consequences.
[5:13] Speaker 2: This is particularly so when it comes to apocalyptic portions
[5:17] Speaker 2: of the Bible. When Jesus says that the stars are
[5:21] Speaker 2: going to fall from the sky, he hardly intends to
[5:24] Speaker 2: be taken literally. One star, of course, would obliterate the earth,
[5:29] Speaker 2: let alone a hundred billion stars. Instead, the heir to
[5:34] Speaker 2: the linguistic riches of the Old Testament prophets in a
[5:37] Speaker 2: greater Propheit than them all used the symbolism of stars
[5:41] Speaker 2: to pronounce judgment within his own generation. Failure to consider
[5:46] Speaker 2: genre might lead to laughs in a comedy routine, but
[5:52] Speaker 2: from an eternal perspective, the effect is not nearly as funny.
[5:58] Speaker 2: And of course we have to look at life with
[6:01] Speaker 2: eternity in mind. If we do, the consequences are life
[6:09] Speaker 2: with a savior. If we don't, the consequences of the
[6:15] Speaker 2: rich man found out are sheer torment. Only two kinds
[6:21] Speaker 2: of people in the world, those who follow Christ and
[6:25] Speaker 2: those who deny Christ, those who are Christians and those
[6:30] Speaker 2: who are anti Christians. Which one are you? And if
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[7:13] Speaker 2: first to Allan. He's listening in Oklahoma. Hi, Allen, Hey,
[7:16] Speaker 2: how you doing good?
[7:17] Speaker 3: Are you not too bad?
[7:21] Speaker 4: Fually?
[7:21] Speaker 3: A simple question concerning In First Corinthians, Chapter three, UH
[7:27] Speaker 3: verses ten through fifteen, Paul talks about landa foundation which
[7:31] Speaker 3: is Christ and that builders can come and build on it,
[7:34] Speaker 3: that they should be careful on what materials they use
[7:37] Speaker 3: because they'll be tested with fire. And knowes that we
[7:41] Speaker 3: stand the fire will receive their reward, but the one
[7:46] Speaker 3: of the fires destroy the builders will suffer loss. They
[7:50] Speaker 3: yet be say that as even though only as escaping
[7:54] Speaker 3: through the fire. What does that mean?
[7:56] Speaker 2: What Paul is doing here is illustrating the reality that
[7:59] Speaker 2: there are some Christians who will be resurrected with precious
[8:03] Speaker 2: little to show for the time they spend on earth.
[8:06] Speaker 2: They'll be, as Paul said, saved, but only as one
[8:09] Speaker 2: escaping through the flames. So Christ, whose eyes are like
[8:14] Speaker 2: blazing fire in the metaphor, is going to incinerate the
[8:18] Speaker 2: work of those who build monuments to themselves, those who
[8:22] Speaker 2: used wood, hay or straw. On the other hand, those
[8:27] Speaker 2: who built selflessly upon the foundation of Jesus Christ. And
[8:31] Speaker 2: that's why he starts out by saying, no one can
[8:33] Speaker 2: lay any other foundation other than the one already laid,
[8:36] Speaker 2: which is Jesus Christ. Those who build on that foundation,
[8:40] Speaker 2: using gold, silver, and costly stones, will receive enduring rewards.
[8:46] Speaker 2: The point here is that what we do now counts
[8:49] Speaker 2: for all eternity. Let's go back to the phone lines. Now,
[8:51] Speaker 2: talk to Duncan. He's listening in High River, Alberta, Canada.
[8:55] Speaker 2: High Duncan, Hello, Hank, are good, thank you.
[9:00] Speaker 4: But my question is in regards to the definition of
[9:04] Speaker 4: praying in the spirit. I tend to Pentecostal style of church,
[9:12] Speaker 4: I suppose, and it is I didn't grow up in
[9:15] Speaker 4: that and this teaching that I'm learning recently is it
[9:20] Speaker 4: seems a little bit odd to me, and the way
[9:23] Speaker 4: I understand praying in the spirit is praying as led
[9:27] Speaker 4: by the Holy Spirit, which is completely different from what
[9:30] Speaker 4: I'm being taught, and I just would like to get
[9:34] Speaker 4: to get your idea on that.
[9:36] Speaker 5: Please.
[9:37] Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's important to recognize that this is
[9:40] Speaker 2: something that Paul includes a Ethesians chapter six, verses ten
[9:46] Speaker 2: through twenty as the full armor of God, and what
[9:50] Speaker 2: he's saying there is to pray in the spirit is
[9:54] Speaker 2: to recognize the sovereignty of God over every detail of
[9:57] Speaker 2: our lives. So an effect, you're saying, thank God, this
[10:01] Speaker 2: world is under his control, not mine. Furthermore, to pray
[10:06] Speaker 2: in the spirit on all occasions is to take up
[10:09] Speaker 2: the sword of the Spirit. What is the sword of
[10:12] Speaker 2: the spirit is the Word of God delineated once again
[10:15] Speaker 2: as that in Ephesian six, but certainly throughout the Bible
[10:20] Speaker 2: as well. And then, finally, to pray in the Spirit
[10:23] Speaker 2: on all occasions means to continually meditate on the Word
[10:28] Speaker 2: of God. Meditating on the Word of God is the
[10:31] Speaker 2: missing link between the intake of scripture and an effective
[10:36] Speaker 2: prayer life. So praying in the spirit is inextricably woven
[10:41] Speaker 2: together with having intimacy with Jesus Christ, having intimacy with God,
[10:47] Speaker 2: which is precisely what prayer is all about. So often
[10:51] Speaker 2: we see prayer as a laundry list of requests or supplications,
[10:56] Speaker 2: but prayers more than that. Prayer is developed intimacy with
[11:01] Speaker 2: the lover of your soul will be right back.
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[15:18] Speaker 2: Hi Jim, Hi, Hank, Hank.
[15:21] Speaker 7: I've got a question on a couple of ministries and
[15:24] Speaker 7: that I've recently started listening to, and I have a
[15:28] Speaker 7: lot of respect for CRI's research, and I just wanted
[15:31] Speaker 7: to get your thoughts. One is Joseph Prince and the
[15:36] Speaker 7: other is Joyce Myers. And I've recently started listening to
[15:40] Speaker 7: these and you know, I enjoy him. You know I
[15:44] Speaker 7: enjoy some of their programs. What are your thoughts on those?
[15:48] Speaker 2: Well? First of all, Joseph Prince is a classic Word
[15:52] Speaker 2: of Faith teacher, and so I don't recommend his ministry.
[15:56] Speaker 2: I've been to Singapore, and here's a guy that's talking
[16:00] Speaker 2: about all kinds of miraculous healings of cancers and tumors
[16:04] Speaker 2: and kidney conditions and aids and much much more. But
[16:08] Speaker 2: the reality is these kinds of miracles are conspicuous by
[16:13] Speaker 2: their absence. And I can say that categorically because I've
[16:17] Speaker 2: done quite a bout of research over the last twenty years.
[16:20] Speaker 2: I talk about this in a book called Christianity in
[16:22] Speaker 2: Crisis twenty first century. And what you find is a
[16:26] Speaker 2: lot of bravado but very little evidence. Where do you
[16:31] Speaker 2: ever see in the ministry of Joseph Prince a man
[16:34] Speaker 2: that comes in with an amputated leg that walks out
[16:38] Speaker 2: with a brand new leg. You never see that kind
[16:40] Speaker 2: of miracle. You never see a man walk in completely
[16:44] Speaker 2: bald and walk out with a full head of hair.
[16:47] Speaker 2: He claims all kinds of miraculous miracles. He says, the
[16:53] Speaker 2: miracle is in your mouth. So if you have the
[16:55] Speaker 2: right kind of faith, faith is a force words of
[16:58] Speaker 2: the containers of the force. Through the force of faith,
[17:01] Speaker 2: you create your own reality. And then, of course he
[17:03] Speaker 2: is guaranteeing prosperity because he says that God's guarantee is prosperity.
[17:10] Speaker 2: I think we do a whole lot better listening to
[17:13] Speaker 2: men in the past, like Charles hadden't spurgeon who said
[17:17] Speaker 2: that the Old Covenant was a covenant of prosperity, the
[17:20] Speaker 2: New Covenant is a covenant of a diversity, whereby we're
[17:23] Speaker 2: being weaned from the present world and made meat for
[17:27] Speaker 2: the world to come. The issue for a Christian is
[17:32] Speaker 2: simply Christian capitalism, responsibility associated with wealth, which is to say,
[17:40] Speaker 2: we are not here living for the temporary, We are
[17:44] Speaker 2: here living for the eternal. Joyce Meyer, by the way,
[17:49] Speaker 2: she is another classic word of faith teacher. You have
[17:54] Speaker 2: to use extraordinary discernment skills to be able to separate
[17:57] Speaker 2: wheat from chaff and heat from light. So while she
[18:00] Speaker 2: may say something of substance from time to time, she
[18:04] Speaker 2: also says something very silly from time to time. For example,
[18:10] Speaker 2: she says, when we're praising and worshiping God, there's actually
[18:14] Speaker 2: an odor that comes off of us that is offensive
[18:18] Speaker 2: to the enemy. And I don't know if you've ever
[18:20] Speaker 2: had the opportunity to smell a demon possessed person, but
[18:23] Speaker 2: I have, and I tell you it's a stench people
[18:26] Speaker 2: that are demon possessed have an offensive odor to me,
[18:29] Speaker 2: And I'm glad that because I'm holy ghost possessed, that
[18:33] Speaker 2: I've got an offensive odor to the devil. I mean,
[18:36] Speaker 2: these are silly things to say. People don't smell as
[18:41] Speaker 2: a result of being demon possessed. In fact, I think
[18:46] Speaker 2: that if they did, we should want to spend as
[18:49] Speaker 2: much time with them as possible so that we might
[18:52] Speaker 2: be the balm of Gilead in their lives.
[18:55] Speaker 7: I see, hey, I appreciate your input there, and I
[18:59] Speaker 7: appreciate you take can my call, and we certainly enjoy your.
[19:01] Speaker 2: Ministry, sir God bless you. Thank you so much for
[19:04] Speaker 2: your call as well. Of course, Joyce Myer's moral is this.
[19:09] Speaker 2: When she talks to people who have debilitating issues, she
[19:15] Speaker 2: is just as crass as anyone I've ever heard. If
[19:19] Speaker 2: you are a paralytic or a paraplegic, she says, you
[19:25] Speaker 2: are the problem. Instead of feeling sorry for yourself, get up.
[19:32] Speaker 2: Put another way, the key to health and prosperity is
[19:35] Speaker 2: to have faith in your faith rather than faith in
[19:38] Speaker 2: your God. And she says it. She says, faith is
[19:41] Speaker 2: not just some little well you know, I believe in
[19:45] Speaker 2: Jesus faith is a force that will change your life
[19:48] Speaker 2: and change your destiny. Well that might sound good to
[19:53] Speaker 2: people who are healthy, but if you're in a wheelchair,
[19:57] Speaker 2: it doesn't sound very good. And if on top of
[20:02] Speaker 2: being a paralytic or a paraplegic, you have someone like
[20:08] Speaker 2: Joyce Meyer heaping guilt on your head that you are
[20:13] Speaker 2: the problem, that's exactly what she says. You are the problem.
[20:19] Speaker 2: Stop feeling sorry for yourself, get up. That person can't
[20:23] Speaker 2: get up, And quite frankly, I have disdained for that
[20:29] Speaker 2: kind of talk. Johnny Erickson Tata has been in a
[20:34] Speaker 2: wheelchair for over three decades and that wheelchair has become
[20:40] Speaker 2: her crown. As a result of being in that wheelchair,
[20:46] Speaker 2: she might not have got up physically, but she gets
[20:51] Speaker 2: up every day spiritually and out of the over a
[20:54] Speaker 2: flow of a time spent in the presence of Almighty
[20:59] Speaker 2: go Odd, she has been enabled to bless multitudes through
[21:05] Speaker 2: her life and her ministry. Joyce Meyer is a crass,
[21:14] Speaker 2: big talker. And again, if you are healthy and wealth
[21:18] Speaker 2: at a particular point in your life, it all sounds
[21:21] Speaker 2: so wonderful, but wait until you struggle. The words are
[21:29] Speaker 2: like sledgehammers. Hardly what you would expect from someone who
[21:36] Speaker 2: claims to carry the mantle of Almighty God. Let's go
[21:41] Speaker 2: back to the phone lines and talk next to Paul.
[21:44] Speaker 2: He's listening in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
[21:48] Speaker 5: Hi Paul, Hi Hank. How you doing today.
[21:51] Speaker 2: I'm good, good talking to you.
[21:54] Speaker 5: Yes, well, thank you for taking that call pleasure. My
[21:57] Speaker 5: question is I sat in the seventies. I sat under
[22:01] Speaker 5: the Ministry of Witness Lee for about six or seven years,
[22:05] Speaker 5: and during that time we were taught the gap theory
[22:08] Speaker 5: between Genesis one one and Genesis one two, that the
[22:13] Speaker 5: Earth became waste and void, and that the actual story
[22:18] Speaker 5: of creation after that is a recreation and of the
[22:23] Speaker 5: cosmos and not merely an initial creation. And the book
[22:29] Speaker 5: that we were referred to was a book by G. H.
[22:31] Speaker 5: Kember called Earth's Earliest Ages, which I used to have
[22:35] Speaker 5: a copy of, but I don't have a copy of now.
[22:39] Speaker 5: And I'd like to hear your take on the gap theory.
[22:44] Speaker 5: And also we were taught that during that time of
[22:49] Speaker 5: the destruction of the original creation and the recreation, that's
[22:54] Speaker 5: where the unclean spirits and demons came from, was from
[22:58] Speaker 5: the previous dinosaur reptilian creation, whatever it was.
[23:04] Speaker 2: Yeah, the gap theory, whether you find it in Genesis
[23:08] Speaker 2: or you find it somewhere else in Daniel, or whether
[23:11] Speaker 2: you find it in Matthew twenty four between verse two
[23:16] Speaker 2: and verse four. Wherever you find the gap theory, I
[23:20] Speaker 2: know they're very popular theories now, the gaps and Daniel,
[23:24] Speaker 2: the gaps in Matthew and Genesis. I simply don't hold
[23:27] Speaker 2: to the gap theory. I think it's ad hoc and
[23:30] Speaker 2: therefore I deny that theory. Look, it's an in house
[23:34] Speaker 2: debate amongst Christians or a lot of Christians that hold
[23:36] Speaker 2: tenaciously to this. I'm not one of them.
[23:40] Speaker 5: Okay, Well, is your take on a dinosaur in the
[23:45] Speaker 5: Reptilian the reptilian creation or the reptiles dinosaurs which captures
[23:51] Speaker 5: the imagination of all the young people? The children today
[23:54] Speaker 5: are all captured in their imagination totally by dinosaurs or
[23:59] Speaker 5: anything to do with dinosaurs, right, And would you say
[24:04] Speaker 5: that there were dinosaurs were up until the time of
[24:07] Speaker 5: the flood? Is that what you would believe?
[24:09] Speaker 2: Well, there are various views on this. Again, this is
[24:13] Speaker 2: one of those in house debates amongst Christians. There are
[24:17] Speaker 2: Christians who hold to the day age theory, and they
[24:20] Speaker 2: say dinosaurs were created in the same day as man,
[24:23] Speaker 2: but that was a day age. Therefore the dinosaurs were
[24:27] Speaker 2: created millions and millions of years before man was created
[24:32] Speaker 2: on the six day Age. And then there are younger
[24:34] Speaker 2: creationists that say, no, that's not correct. Dinosaurs lived at
[24:38] Speaker 2: the same time that humans did. They were created in
[24:41] Speaker 2: the exact same twenty four hour time frame. And the
[24:45] Speaker 2: example they would give in evidence is from Job forty
[24:49] Speaker 2: and forty one with Behemoth and Leviathan. So again, this
[24:53] Speaker 2: is one of those issues that Christians differ on. Of course,
[24:58] Speaker 2: this word dinosaur was word that was coined by Sir
[25:02] Speaker 2: Richard Owen. It means terrible lizard. And when we look
[25:07] Speaker 2: at the dinosaurs that are extant, we recognize that they
[25:10] Speaker 2: did exist. The debate is when did they come into existence.
[25:15] Speaker 2: There are some mistakes, of course, with respect to the dinosaurs.
[25:18] Speaker 2: Brontosaurus was a mistake, wrong fossil head and wrong body.
[25:23] Speaker 2: Brachiosaurus is close to a description people say of what
[25:28] Speaker 2: you find in Job forty. But again there's a lot
[25:31] Speaker 2: of speculation within the Christian community on this, and I
[25:34] Speaker 2: think that in answer to the question, we need to
[25:37] Speaker 2: not only learn how to read adeptly God's book the Bible,
[25:42] Speaker 2: but also his general revelation in the Book of Nature.
[25:46] Speaker 2: We are called, as followers of the King to think
[25:50] Speaker 2: his thoughts after him, so critical to be adept in
[25:54] Speaker 2: both those fields, as God gives us strength and the
[25:57] Speaker 2: ability to learn. We're out of time for this edition
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