Yeah, question.
If, as you say, you are not a literalist, then why did you pick the argument that since Catholics aren’t either, we don’t consider the Bible the truth?
Only to disagree with your own argument later after taking up my time?
I should have known better and will, hopefully, in the future.
I am a literalist. Unless it is a parable, a riddle or an obvious metaphor, then it is to be taken literally. Not at all like Catholics, who take the literal and turn them into metaphors, or vague interpretations, and take the metaphors and turn them into literal doctrines. Like the Eucharist, for one example. I know Jesus wasn’t a literal gate, but I also know He isn’t magically “changed” from a wafer into His body.