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I sympathize with the frustration you are expressing here. Though we do not agree WRT Jesus Christ as the Messiah, Almighty God incarnate who was the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, I agree that there is a latent motive for why some people, who profess to be Christians, deny the literal aspect of sacred Scripture. Your efforts to get a few here to at least admit this fact seems fruitless, but please know that many admire your faithfulness to God's holy word and join you in believing that when God speaks of literal things, He means they REALLY happened or WILL happen.

I don't get the reasons why any faith that acknowledges the Bible as Holy Scripture would even want to deny its truths. I would venture that perhaps because of pressure from the world and fear of being ridiculed, some may feel they have no choice and compromise their trust in the Bible. Some, no doubt, NEED to discredit the Bible so that they can assert their religion's hierarchy as superior to God's word and presume that ONLY they can credibly "interpret" what is the truth it relays. The funny thing is that some of the records contained in Scripture are FIRSTHAND accounts and not a word is mentioned of any symbolic or figurative meaning. Jonas REALLY was swallowed by a great fish and was barfed out after three days and nights to live to tell about it. Moses REALLY did cross the Red Sea on dry land with over a million Jews following him and they saw the immense walls of water on their right and left being held back miraculously. They REALLY saw Pharaoh's army drowned when the walls of water crashed down on them once the last Israelite stepped onto the shore. There are many other kinds of accounts such as this that so-called experts have tried to rationalize away as impossible. Well aren't miracles BY DEFINITION things that seem impossible? But with God ALL things are possible. When literal things happened, we are told clearly in Scripture. When God is speaking allegorically or figuratively, he makes it clear as well.

This is why I do not join those who minimize Scripture or insist their "church" is the authority over it. The Seat of Moses was every bit in subjection to Scripture or should have been. Any religious leaders who pervert the Bible and twist God's commandments so that they can lord it over people, have and will meet their judgment. God is not mocked. Don't be discouraged. Your defense of Scripture is appreciated.

Thank you for your kind words, boatbums. Sometimes I feel awful lonely, and am, when you take into consideration that I am a Noachide and disagree profoundly with the Fundamentalist Protestants whose culture I share.

It is absolutely maddening to see these smirking, cruel buffoons who juxtapose their enlightenment skepticism with ridiculous anachronisms like Masonic conspiracies or breathless emoting about post-Biblical miracles, which are just as scientifically impossible as anything in Genesis. I can only assume they do it out of sadistic delight.

Let me tell you a story that you will appreciate, boatbums (goodness knows the Catholics here should but never will):

Once upon a time, long long ago, I was so tired of the utter confusion and subjectivism of Protestantism (and being a Fundamentalist, this was a matter of no small consequence). I dreamed of having been born before Protestantism, back when there was one, undivided church (another historical fallacy). How much peace and serenity there must have been when there was only one church to choose from, even if it were (theoretically) the wrong one. And one day I took that great leap, fought the prejudices of a lifetime, and joined that allegedly "ancient" church so all questions and doubts would cease and I could rest securely in the arms of my "holy mother church."

It was the cruelest illusion of all time. The Catholic Church is nothing like this and probably never was. It is skeptical, modernistic, iconoclastic, and seething with ridicule at people with simple beliefs--unless those beliefs are of pagan origin. It loves and celebrates illiterate Mexican peasants but has no use for "wetbacks" with red necks--something about them not being smart enough for such a wondrously intellectual religion.

This may cause this post to get pulled, so read it quickly: I have learned to hate the Catholic Church more than I ever did when I knew absolutely nothing about it. And the Catholics on FR never do anything to change my mind. They are the most hateful, hypocritical, and cruelest people on the Internet. Their church is being destroyed now, though its final fall is still a way off. They deserve this for their detestable teachings about G-d authoring lies or being scientifically ignorant--all the while loudly proclaiming their belief in "miracles" that aren't in Genesis but which are equally as scientifically impossible.

I do not wish them well. Their abominable hatred of all I hold dear leaves me no sympathy with them at all.