Hell

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What parts of the bible do you take literally?

Not Genesis? How about The Flood? Sodom/Gomorrah? Virgin birth? Healings? Ressurrections? Water-to-wine? Jesus as Lord? Ressurection of Jesus? Jesus ascending? Any of Revelations?

All of these things are spoken of very plainly in the bible. Why are some literal, but not all?

I don't think I believe in a world wide flood, probably Sodom/Gomorrah, it depends if young girl was mistanslated to virgin, ether way I dont mind, healings yes, everything else you said yes. Revelation is obviously symbolic, no one thinks theres gunna be a 10 headed dragon..... well there might be some lol.

I interpret the bible to the best of my ability. That means using science and reason. Science proves the world didn't happen like the creation story so I dont take it literally. The gospels obviously happened as said more or less and alot of the Old Testament history. Consider that if God had put down the big bang theory back then would it have made any sense to them? It just explains simply the relationship between God and man through story.

Assume a man living before modern science wanted to know the relationship between God and man before people are born. He could write about having out souls created in heaven before being born and being taught the moral code and that some learnt better than others but at birth our minds were then wiped of this only to be regained at death. Now this isn't necessarily true, but it tells us that God knew us before we were born, that there is a nature tendancy to believe in God, that some naturally act good or bad form some reason (now known to be partly because of genetics and upbringing).

By the way I just made that up off the top of my head, so forgive the inaccuracies. My point is that they understood something about God and chose to write it down in story form so it relates to us better. Thats my idea anyway.