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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp, where did you learn about the word "literally?" You're incorrect. If it is literally raining cats and dogs, there are actual cats and dogs falling from the clouds. If God literally measured the waters in his hand, it does mean that he used his actual hand. I don't actually care about your opinion. But I want to point out to you that your argument makes zero sense, if you're hung up on the incorrect definition of"literally."

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I've already addressed this in a different post, and I didn't define literally. What I said elsewhere is that this notion of taking the Bible "literally" is posed as a false choice. There are many figures of speech in the Bible that we don't take "literally," but the way the question is framed is that if you don't take every metaphor "literally," then the Bible can be understood to mean any number of things. And what I am saying is that when the Bible uses metaphors and other figures of speech, it still means something specific and knowable and isn't subject to numerous different interpretations just because it used a metaphor.

So my example was that if you say it's raining cats and dogs, I'm still supposed to understand that you mean that it's raining really hard. But the post-modern progressive Christian can read something like that and think that I was just making a larger point about something else entirely.[/quote]

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