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Can you give me the Scripture where God tells man to allegorize His Bible?

There is a difference between God and man, you know. God wrote His Bible the way He wrote it and used parables (which always symbolized something literal) on occasion.

Can you give me the Scriptural authorization by God that man is to take His Bible as anything but literal? Where do we go to find out that God tells us that we are to take it upon ourselves to change the meaning of Scripture?

Can you give me the Scripture where God tells man to allegorize His Bible?

Can you give me scripture that says that everything must be literal? Tell me, what does it mean to be born again, literally? Spiritual birth is one of the invisible things that we understand by the things that are made (Rom. 1:20). The natural birth is a symbol. Without it, we have no understanding of the second birth.

Another symbol is sheep. Scripture says we are like sheep, therefore sheep though literal, is also an analogy. I could make a long list but consider one more. How would we understand the meaning of the “Pearl of Great Price” if God had not made pearls? These metaphors are myriad in scripture and God has designed them all. They are useful for our understanding and for rightly interpreting God’s word.

How better to understand God’s word than by looking at his work. Do you think is significant that the pearl comes out of the sea since the sea is also a symbol?

My question stands; “Can you think of anything that God made and used in scripture that is not an allegory?”

Where does man get the authorization from God to change the meaning of Scripture?

We do not change the meaning of scripture by finding something that is already there. We know that there is at least one allegory in scripture. If there are others, then God has given us the means to discern them.

Matt 13:37-39 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

You will note that each of the items in this parable is given a meaning. Are these meanings the same when we encounter these symbols elsewhere in scripture?

Scripture specifically states in Romans 5 that Adam is a figure of Christ. There is no such statement about Issac and Joseph, but Christ said of scripture “they are they which testify of me.” Should we be looking for Christ in the Old Testament? Was it a prophecy when Abraham took Issac to sacrifice him? What about Joseph when he sent the gentiles out of the room and revealed himself to his brothers? Will Christ reveal himself to Israel when they come looking for spiritual food during the coming spiritual famine?

1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened to them [as] types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. (Darby Translation)

How do you know there is a gap between the 69th and 70th week of Daniel?