Let's deal with mistakes and assumptions based on those mistakes. You assume, for example, that your sentence above its correct.
In reality, it isn't. You have misused the word "loose".
Now, what if in the text, that you say can't be taken literally, you are also making assumptions that are not warranted?
This is by no means an attempt to correct your sentence; it is rather an attempt to show how assumptions have consequences.
Indeed, dear brother in Christ! I pinged you to a similar discussion on another thread in case you wish to pursue this sidebar over there as well.
The best you can do? So the earth is 40,000 years old?