Christianity Month. God Wins.
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Sigh...
Do you put up this much fuss when one of your buddies says:
"Dude, the Chicago Bulls just KILLED the Boston Celtics!"
or
"Bro, the new album by Metallica is KILLER!"
or
"Dude, EVERYBODY knows Fauci is a liar"
or
"Hey man, did you see the beautiful sunRISE this morning?"
Now, let me ask you: Are the capital words in the above sentences mean to be taken in their absolute literal sense? Do you put up the same amount of fuss with these statements as you do a similar statement pulled from the Bible? Or are you fully capable of gleaning what is being said?
So you don't take some things in the bible literally but do take some of it literally.
How do you know when to take it literally and when not to?
The same way you know that your friends are not to be taken literally when they say the above statements. The same way you can tell the difference between poetry and prose. Historical narrative and a personal letter. It's literature, my man. It's not hard. You use the same literary tools one would use reading any other peace of literature. If you're reading poetry, then you use the literary tools to interpret the poetry. If you're reading historical narrative, then you use the tools of historical narrative to interpret the text.
Context is king.
Sounds like a good way to muddy the truth by allowing personal interpretation.
2+2 is always 4 regardless of your interpretation of it.
Nah.
Using the proper literary tools for the specific literature one is reading is actually how one keeps "personal interpretation" to a minimum.