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Jesus said,
"I am the door." I think that's some kind of metaphor,
right? He doesn't mean that he swings on hinges. When it says that the earth was
created in six days,
does that mean six periods of 24 hours?
Might it mean something else? If somebody tells you, "you need to believe all that
stuff literally or you can't believe
in God - you can't believe in Jesus," you can tell them they're wrong because
there are plenty of people who can debate some of these things, debate the age of the
earth, debate whether a
Job of Jonah are poetic or literal -
these can't be the deal-breakers. I mean, if, if, if that's what
is driving somebody away from
experiencing the God of love who wants to
bless them and help them with their life.
I mean, if that's what's keeping you away, don't let that - that's like, ridiculous.
If God says it happened literally, okay, then I'll say it happened literally.
Jesus walked around literally. He rose from the dead literally. There are things
that
you have to take literally, but there are poetic forms, there are things that are
said in Scripture
which are not meant to take literally in that sense, and if you think that you
have to check your brain at the door and you have to believe that all that stuff
happened literally
or you can't possibly be a Christian, I would say I don't think that is true. I would, I
would be really careful about letting some weird
thing like that keep you from, from
from believing the Bible is true, and again true -
not literal, but true. I think that
intelligent people who believe the Bible can have disagreements in conversations
on this, and they're fun but they
they shouldn't be the thing that keeps you from God because God is real
and you kinda don't wanna miss that.