[imardmd1]

Speaking as having been trained in how to interpret the Bible, let me warn you not to get into interpretation by means of allegorical analysis or by mixing your metaphors and parables as in your Posts #820 and #822 and the like, for you will descend into an area in which you will never get out of, because you will have no standards of hermeneutics upon which agreement can be achieved.

The only way out, to find the truths of Scripture, is to employ the hermeneutic of literal, historical, cultural, contextual method in which any passage of Scripture can have one, and only one, primary interpretation to which all the context of Scripture lends itself. though literal interpretation contains both plain literal language and figurative-literal language, Figurative and /or allegorical interpretation is not normal. Figurative interpretation causes problems because it reads something into literature that is not plainly stated, and makes communication impossible where there is no fixed standard--only opinion--of what is being said.

So, using it, you will only get into arguments, even with those who show you what the Scripture plainly says.

Every statement of Scripture has only one sense (Isaiah 53:5, cf 1 Peter 2:24; this is about one's spiritual state, not one's physical sickness, which many try to apply it thus perverting the meaning). When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense--that is, commoonly accepted sense across the population--seek no other sense.

Got that?

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Speaking as having been trained in how to interpret the Bible, let me warn you not to get into interpretation by means of allegorical analysis or by mixing your metaphors and parables as in your Posts #820 and #822 and the like, for you will descend into an area in which you will never get out of, because you will have no standards of hermeneutics upon which agreement can be achieved. The only way out, to find the truths of Scripture, is to employ the hermeneutic of literal, historical, cultural, contextual method in which any passage of Scripture can have one, and only one, primary interpretation to which all the context of Scripture lends itself. though literal interpretation contains both plain literal language and figurative-literal language, Figurative and /or allegorical interpretation is not normal. Figurative interpretation causes problems because it reads something into literature that is not plainly stated, and makes communication impossible where there is no fixed standard--only opinion--of what is being said. So, using it, you will only get into arguments, even with those who show you what the Scripture plainly says. Every statement of Scripture has only one sense (Isaiah 53:5, cf 1 Peter 2:24; this is about one's spiritual state, not one's physical sickness, which many try to apply it thus perverting the meaning). When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense--that is, commoonly accepted sense across the population--seek no other sense. Got that?

So you believe there will be a prostitute with a cup riding an animal swimming in the ocean as told in Revelation?