Let's be biblically literary

[Stoneheart]

Still not seeing your point. Are you saying the Temptation story is allegory?

And what you're doing here is cherry picking the OT verses that can be used to support your POV anyway.

It's nice to look at the immediate context first before looking elsewhere for a proper interpretation. Just because you can find "wilderness" in more than two places does not mean they must have the same sense of the term. Just because one passage is part of a poetic prophecy does not mean all other passages are the same.

That said, an argument could still be made that the Gospel stories were all intended to be allegory, and it can feel that way to some readers, but it would be good to have something concrete to go by rather than just intuition (and cherry picking verses).

Yeah I am cherrypicking and will have to use circular logic and reasoning to try to show my point.

I'm thinking each word needs to be learned before the context can be read. It is not a human language.
It seems to be a language of a law of heavens.

The people, animals, trees, metals, weapons, etc, are keywords.

Like the sun , moon, and stars are three keywords of the four levels of directions and each of them has three levels.
The keywords are for twelve gates.



I think it is not talking about the literal sun, moon, stars:

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring. Luke 21:25

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. Habakkuk 3:11


Moon is Brass is Cattle is Spear
Star is Silver is Goat is Sword
Sun is Gold is Sheep is Bow
　

I think it is not talking about literal cattle, sheep, goats:

Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war. Psalm 68:30

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. Ecclesiastes 3:18

And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats. Ezekiel 34:17

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Hebrews 10:4


　
Eat for yourselves and pasture your cattle: verily, in this are Signs for men endued with understanding. Quran 20:24

Or thinkest thou that most of them listen or understand? They are only like cattle;- nay, they are worse astray in Path. Quran 25:44

And We shall drive the sinners to Hell, like thirsty cattle driven down to water. Quran 19:86