Jesus Christ appears in Lebanon!!

[Dotard]

Well you have to be careful when taking things at face value.

Nope. No 'care' needed. In your example of body and blood of christ there are folks who would disagree with you and say they literally transform into flesh and blood. Then there are some who maintain they 'spiritually transform' (whateverthehelltheatmeans).

So since those that actually believe christianity to be true cannot agree on what is literal and what is figurative then it is left up to us, the reader, to decide.

6 days of creation, literal or figurative?
Talking donkeys, literal or figurative?
People living to be over 900 years old, literal or figurative?
Rich people cannot enter heaven, literal or figurative?
God spreading dung upon peoples faces, literal or figurative?

Who gets to be the authority in determining literal or figurative? The individual reader? Me? You? The corner preacher?

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About that article;

I saw nothing that would equate the "Kingdom of God" with this little display of light and magic.

Also I think it's worthy to note that in the first paragraph of that article it states "Unlike many other events, Jesus did not announce that it would happen..."

Kinda kills your whole theory about the kingdom of god meaning the transfig. as it was Jesus announcing it.