Way to have you cake and eat it too.
So how do you determine which are the parts that are true and which are not?
What criteria do you use to pass judgment on the word of God?
What is your absolute standard of truth on which you base your judgments and what qualifies you to be in such a position to pass those judgments?
Define "literal truth".
What criteria do you use to pass judgment on the word of God?
Obviously, any criteria you use to judge the Word is being put above the Word in authority, and therefore must have more knowledge than the Word. I don't think I want to have to try to defend that.
My apologies please, I should have said absolute rather than literal - absolute truth is the widely accepted theological viewpoint of the Bible.
I do believe the Bible is absolute truth, divinely revealed, and inspired of the Holy Spirit however recorded and translated by mere men so, yes, not literal but something much deeper actually.
BTW the the Merriam-Webster website is fairly exhaustive on the term too.
Truly, God alone sees all that there is, all at once. He alone knows objective truth. He alone speaks objective truth.
He is Truth for when He says something, it is. It is because He said, e.g. "Let there be light."
To doubt the words of God is to be spiritually irrational.