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1 | Torn veil of Mat 15.38 the literal veil? | Matthew | graftedin | 212675 | ||
John, thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I don't question that the Bible is the inspired word of God and wholly true and accurate; that's not what I meant by "literal." I have been taught and have read that within the boundaries of sound Bible interpretation, there are some things in the Bible that are not literal. They're TRUE, but not literal. For example, Ps. 50:10, that God owns the cattle on a thousand hills.....that probably doesn't mean literally one thousand, but more likely means uncounted or infinite or something like that. When God told Abraham that his descendants would be numbered like the grains of sand on earth or the stars in the sky, He didn't literally mean an exact number, but uncountable (by anyone but God). When Ezekiel and John saw their visions, were all of those descriptive words literal, or representative of an idea? I can't think of other examples right now, but I think you get my point. As I said in my original question, Mark 15:38 (and parallel passages) sounds to me like there's no way to take it except literally. But I'm just an average person studying the Bible and there might be something I don't yet see about this. I can't discern, for example, whether or not the streets in heaven are literally gold, or if the word is intended to evoke imagery. I've read bunches of commentaries about this verse and a lot on the web, but I've found nothing that addresses my questions A and B. | ||||||
2 | Torn veil of Mat 15.38 the literal veil? | Matthew | stjohn | 212684 | ||
Hi graftedin, Something else to be noted on this is that, the events of Christ's crucifixion are excepted as literal in every denomination of Christianity that is not a cult and, Christian in name only. As you say there are plenty of Scriptures that are to be taken as allegory, but it's for the most part, easy to see the difference. When we see a string of verses that are easily seen as literal, it makes no sense to see one in the middle of that string of verses to be taken as allegorical or as something to be taken as imagery. John |
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3 | Torn veil of Mat 15.38 the literal veil? | Matthew | graftedin | 212692 | ||
John, good points. | ||||||