First, lose the attitude if you want a discussion.
Second, I never said anything about disproving the Bible. I am talking about its literal versus figurative meaning.
Bread and Wine are not actually the body and blood of Christ. Jesus was not talking about feeding hunger with bread and blood, but feeding the spirit.
Can figurative interpretation be taken too far? Yes! It can be used to either dimiss the entire Bible and its teachings or used to selectively interpret God's will to suit one's preferences.
However, literal interpretation misses the message God is communicating to us. Figurative teaching is a method used in the Bible to convey meaning, and it is not meant to diminish that meaning in any way.
lose the attitude? your skin is too thin for dialog. Have a nice day.
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.
Yes!
When God was talking literally He made it pretty obvious. The Bible gives the story of Noah as an account of history, not a parable, although it is a type of being saved in Christ.
You are right in saying the so-called “eucharist” is not literal food. He said “Do this in remebrance of me”, not cannibalising me.
In the O.T. He said about the lamb in Exodus 12:11: “It is the Lord’s passover” This is not any more or less literal than “This is my body”, in which case He was talking about the group of gathered believers, which is the body of Christ.
The Bible is full of the literal and the figurative, and prayerful reading and study clarify the confusion. A