[VRWC_minion]

I'm sure you will come up with some silly explanation to this question but I'll ask anyway. What would be the purpose in leaving the Bible open to any ol' interpretation that someone thinks he can justify?

I didn't say that at all. What I said is that a passage can be true in both a literal sense and a metaphorical sense. You have concluded that its not possible for it to be true at the same time for both. I disagree.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

To use a very worn out phrase.... You can't have it both ways. You can disagree because it works for settling it in your mind, but it doesn't make it right.

I trust God's methods over man's.

Thank you.