[Fuzz]

My father is a preacher so I did take it literally for about 10 years, too long by my estimation. The bumping my head off walls of logic (or illogic) is enlightening, not frightening.

[El Cid]

My father is a preacher so I did take it literally for about 10 years, too long by my estimation.

I am sorry that you came to a point to reject the truth. Hopefully it is just a rebellious phase.

[American Constitutionalist]

" literally "

Thems are called " Fundamentalist "

Some aspects and interpretations of some places of the bible could be taken literally when it is in it's proper context and other times as Jesus Christ sometimes would speak in parables taken as in a allegory.
The bible translates or rather the bible interprets the bible by it's self.
The book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is a " revelation " of Jesus Christ with many images, symbolic meanings, types, so on and so on.
When Jesus said about being it's so hard to get a camel through a eye of a needle ? does he mean that we should take a camel and try that ? impossible... it was symbolic.