FIrst, lose the “everyone has an attitude if they disagree with me” attitude
Then, start recognizing that similie and metaphor have their places, but when the words like or as are not used, just because you find the passage difficult to accept due to your preconceptions, that does not make the Bible figurative
It just means you choose to not believe what it plainly says.
Can you re-write this please? I do not understand.