It always means what it says, but you have to take it in context and you can't assume you can tell what it means unless you know the context.
Believers are a varied bunch with different levels of knowledge, that's all.
And we are all to assume that you are the one who has the knowledge to understand the perfect contextual meaning? I mean, believers all have varied levels of knowledge but you and your group has perfect understanding? I mean...after all you have your own dictionary defining "Literal" as ..."whatever the heck we think it means based on our perfect contextual knowledge..oh yeh and all those centuries of know-it-alls before us who passed down their knowledge perfectly to only us."
Forgive me if I (to borrow a phrase)..think thats a load of Bollocks.
Forgive me if I'm mistaken but doesn't taking something literally mean taking it "word for word"? As in Verbatim? As in the "exact meaning"? As in NOT a metaphor?
oh yeh...but only if I understand the perfect contextual meaning passed down through the generations perfectly to me and my group. Sounds like the beginnings of a mystery novel.
Is it me or does the level of arrogance displayed seem overwhelming?
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