You’re trying too hard to be critical about a matter about which you don’t know the facts. Why do you suppose that you are more willing to think badly of the President?
Repeatedly, I’ve mentioned at least one non-literal idea that has cause severe rifts in our Body (at least as bad as the circumcisors). Are the four corners of the earth are literal?
No one is above the laws of God, and no one who holds himself out as a believer in Jesus Christ and who has declared to the world that he is a believer in Jesus Christ is above criticism when he states publicly, never mind even thinks that the God-breathed, inerrant, Word of the Living God is not factual and true. If the Scriptures are not true, then a lot of us are in a lot of trouble, God is a liar, His promises are lies, those of us who have trusted in him for our salvation and our eternal security were lied to and are doomed, and we can depend on Him for nothing. But, in his quest to keep people away from God, and away from salvation, Satan has done a marvelous job in putting doubt in the minds of many, even many "Christians" that the Scriptures just might not be literally true. Because, the thinking goes, if the Bible is not true, then the parts about a day of reckoning, and the part about every knee bowing before God and admitting that He is Lord, and the part about many people rejecting Christ and suffering the penalty for that rejection must not be true either and that lets me off the hook. Satan is brilliant, isn't he?
It all comes back to what I said originally: apart from a relationship with Jesus Christ, and apart from the revealing work of the Holy Spirit, it is impossible for men to understand the Word of God.
As far as "the four corners of the earth", God refers to this several times in Scripture. Are you open to the possibility that there are realities out there that we are not privy to yet? And maybe never? Are you open to the fact that when God said "my thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways are not your ways" He meant that in many different ways? Are you open to accepting the fact that we are the creation, and severely limited in our understanding of most of the physical world, never mind all of what God has created and all of what He thinks?
I am continually amazed at the arrogance of puny mankind that results in the belief that if we can't see it or touch it or explain it that it doesn't exist. Instead of marveling at a God Who would even acknowledge our existence after our horrific rebellions and offenses against Him; instead of falling on our faces and worshiping a God Who has such a love that He would die in our place to keep us out of eternal damnation and with Him for eternity, we shake our fists in His face and declare His Holy Word a book of fairy tales because in our finite, dumb little minds, we can't understand it.
It's simply mind-boggling.