(March 28, 2019 at 2:34 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: There are parables, metaphor, and allegory.....and then there are antonyms.
If you want to insist that magic book is full of coded antonymous references, acro, have at it. The rest of us, and the rest of the christians you would disagree with, just haven't found the right box of crackerjacks yet, I suppose.
The write of Malachi himself confirms that god in unchanging.
Malachi 3:6
“For I the Lord do not change."
Your interpretation of the meaning of passage implies that the writer contradicts himself, by suggesting god is changing, that one minute he feels hatred towards Esau, and other minute he feels love towards Jacob. That when he thinks of Jacob he feels love, that when he thinks of Esau he feels hate.
It's one thing to say the writer didn't believe God is not changing, therefore he meant it literally here. But the writer indicated that God is unchanging, therefore unless he's contradicting himself, the passage here in context of the writers views, is not literal.
When I read a book, or a story, or novel, from a writer, I read them in context, not just in parts, or by resorting to quote mining to justify an interpretation.
Now it's very well possible that some writers of scripture may not have held a view of God as immutable, but that's contrary to the variety of attributes assigned to God by orthodox believers, and would therefore be seen as false or premature conception of God.
