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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.

Definition of ABSOLUTE 1 a : free from imperfection : perfect b : free or relatively free from mixture : pure c : outright, unmitigated 2 : being, governed by, or characteristic of a ruler or authority completely free from constitutional or other restraint 3 a : standing apart from a normal or usual syntactical relation with other words or sentence elements b of an adjective or possessive pronoun : standing alone without a modified substantive c of a verb : having no object in the particular construction under consideration though normally transitive 4 : having no restriction, exception, or qualification 5 : positive, unquestionable 6 a : independent of arbitrary standards of measurement b : relating to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of length, mass, and time c : relating to, measured on, or being a temperature scale based on absolute zero ; specifically : kelvin <10° absolute> 7 : fundamental, ultimate 8 : perfectly embodying the nature of a thing 9 : being self-sufficient and free of external references or relationships 10 : being the true distance from an aircraft to the earth's surface

The anti- God types have coined the phrase of “literal truth” to force a definition which is not realistic and nobody accepts and then they force it on others.

FWIW, the comment in that post asking for a defintion of “literal truth” was not directed to you. It was directed towards the individual who disingenously applied it to those who disagreed with him as if it were a fact, when in reality, it is a strawman.