[P-Marlowe]

Here’s a list of questions to ponder:

Figurative or Literal?

1) 6 Day Creation?
2) Garden of Eden?
3) Serpent?
4) Tree of Knowledge?
5) Cain & Abel?
6) The Flood?
7) Abraham?
8) Moses?
9) The Nile into blood?
10) Plagues of Egypt?
11) The passover?
12) The parting of the Red Sea?
13) The 40 year wandering?
14) The Ten commandments?
15) The Walls of Jericho?
16) The one hour time stop?
17) Jonah?
18) Job?
19) Sampson and the Phillistines
19) David & Goliath?
20) Daniel and the Lion’s Den?
21) Shadrach Meshach and Abednigo in the fiery furnace?
22) The Virgin Birth?
23) Water into wine?
24) The Incarnation?
25) The Resurrection?

I’m sure there are more.

[jude24]

Figurative or Literal?

False dichotomy.

[Salvation]

Now that is some list for discussion! Wow!

[Enosh]

1) 6 Day Creation?
Literal. (God’s perspective.)

2) Garden of Eden?
Literal.

3) Serpent?
Literal. (Talking donkey later too!)

4) Tree of Knowledge?
Literal.

5) Cain & Abel?
Literal.

6) The Flood?
Literal.

7) Abraham?
What about him?

8) Moses?
What about him?

9) The Nile into blood?
10) Plagues of Egypt?
11) The passover?
Literal. (Three in one bonus question there?)

12) The parting of the Red Sea?
Literal. (The Jordan several times too.)

13) The 40 year wandering?
Literal.

14) The Ten commandments?
Literal, but butterfingers busted the first copy.

15) The Walls of Jericho?
Literal.

16) The one hour time stop?
I always had trouble with Joshua having “the clapper” rigged to the sun. Help? Anyone?

17) Jonah?
Literal.

18) Job?
What about him?

19) Sampson and the Phillistines
Literal. Huzzah smackdown!

19) David & Goliath?
Literal. Huzzah smackdown!

20) Daniel and the Lion’s Den?
Literal.

21) Shadrach Meshach and Abednigo in the fiery furnace?
Literal.

22) The Virgin Birth?
Literal.

23) Water into wine?
Literal.

24) The Incarnation?
Literal.

25) The Resurrection?
Literal.

[annalex]

All these are safe to take literally, even if there is room for some semantical distinctions here and there in the Old Testament.

there are more

26) "This is my body" - literal.
27) "Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained" - literal
28) "labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election" - literal
29) "by works a man is justified; and not by faith only" - literal

[Seven_0]

Figurative or Literal?

I had to think about #24 for a while, but I would say that all points are both literal and figurative.