[boatbums]

The trouble with writing off so much of Scripture as mere allegories, myths, legends or folk tales is that, with that kind of hermeneutic, NOTHING can be taken literally and EVERYTHING can be written off if one finds the literal not to their liking. What I have found in my forty-five plus years of Bible study is that God means what He says and says what He means. IF something is a parable, He insures it is explained to those with ears to hear. When He uses allegory, it clearly spells that out, too, and Scripture interprets Scripture.

[daniel1212]

The trouble with writing off so much of Scripture as mere allegories, myths, legends or folk tales is that, with that kind of hermeneutic, NOTHING can be taken literally

You mean like "Hath God said?" Then you have the demonic other extreme, in which someone will take something literal which was obviously (in the light of the rest of Scripture) figurative as denoting spiritual (as the "lamb" of God in Jn. 1, Lord referring to the temple in Jn 2, "born" in Jn. 3, "water" and "meat" in Jn. 4, and flesh and blood in Jn. 6, etc.)