@Ziggy Some ppl do see the language of Scripture as strongly allegorical, I know. I tend to be a bit more literalist, I guess...
Do you read the book of Revelation as Literal?
This is how I read the Bible.
God is Spirit.
He wants to talk to man's spirit.
He's uses men to write his words so we can read them.
When he is speaking he is talking heart to heart. mind to mind. Spirit to spirit.
I also believe there are literal actual events that happened in the bible.
But that's not what God wants us to hear.
It's not about the geneologies, or the floods, or the sodoms and gomorahs
it's not about whether Jericho fell, how many were in an army.
They may very well be literal events, but God uses those events to speak to us.
He uses them as examples to have a heart to heart talk.
To help us see and understand and hear the message he wants us to know.
About Him. About who we are. Why where here. And what he expects of us as children
growing up in his Garden. In His Paradise. In His Kingdom.
It's about the Moral of the story being told. And what we take from it.
That's how I read the Bible.
Other people read it how puts it on their plate.
And sometimes it tastes like bitter grapes and other times like fresh clean water.
It can rile you up or calm you down.
And they are burning them in the steets!
That's out there, I'm in here.
God has a plan.
And I feel confident that in the end
God Wins.
Amen
Thank You farouk
HUGS