“Well, pretty much every Christian Scholar agrees that not everything in the Bible is literally true.”
With the same confidence you declare this - I will say there are just as many “Christian Scholars” who have attempted to either elevate themselves to God’s level, or have attempted to bring God down to man’s level.
I can assure you based in belief in what God’s word says on this subject - that none of these scholars best efforts will achieve their goal - mentioned above - in the end. God is not affected by the ‘brilliance’ of ‘Christian scholars’, but they certainly have an effect on those with weak faith, don’t they?
Again, those scholars in making such grandiose statments, by default then, MUST be able to tell you with 100 percent accuracy which are literal, and which are not literal meanings.
These scholars will ALWAYS add caveats to their statements:
‘This MAY be literal’, ‘that MAY NOT be literal’. They are too intelligent to commit their statement as fact, because they have doubts in the very things they proclaim.
And of course, they would never want to be held totally accountable for their false statements or lack of complete faith - if they found out they were wrong.............
Psalm 50:10 (New International Version)- 10 for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
Taken literally this would mean God owns the cattle on exactly one thousand hills. That is not the meaning. What it means is that God owns EVERYTHING.