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To: r9etb
Nor would one expect a Psalm to be "literally true."

Again, I don't get you.

What is not true about the Psalms?

Give me an example please.

46 posted on 12/09/2008 3:06:48 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot
What is not [literally] true about the Psalms?

1:4 The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

The wicked are not like chaff. They are driven by the winds like chaff.

138 posted on 12/09/2008 4:39:43 PM PST by E=MC2
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To: SkyPilot

6:2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Bones cannot think therefore cannot be ‘troubled’.


140 posted on 12/09/2008 4:42:08 PM PST by E=MC2
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To: SkyPilot

6:6 I am weary with my groaning; Every night I flood my bed; I drench my couch with my tears.

I don’t think he really flooded the bed every night.


142 posted on 12/09/2008 4:43:15 PM PST by E=MC2
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To: SkyPilot
What is not true about the Psalms?

You seem to be implying that there's no difference between "true" and "literally true."

Consider Psalm 23. It's clearly true in a metaphorical sense that describes our relationship with God; but it's just as clearly not literally true, because we are not sheep as in ovis aries, and God is not a literal herder of sheep.

246 posted on 12/09/2008 7:28:44 PM PST by r9etb
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