[GeronL]

metaphors

[LurkingSince'98]

“metaphors”

I believe understand your statement, what I don’t understand is the necessity of taking every single word of the 6,000+ year old Genesis creation story literally; yet when it comes to a direct command from Christ’s mouth, witnessed and written about by Holy Spirit inspired writers only 2,000 years ago - that it is metaphor.

For the Greater Glory of God

[Carpe Cerevisi]

metaphors

So that's why some of his disciples stopped following him.