Interesting you know exactly which words of Scripture are literal and which are symbolic. Where do you get this wisdom? Was the flood real? How do you know?
You pick and choose those verses you want to be literal
The VERY thing YOU are claiming to do.
Where do you get this wisdom?
From Scripture when Jesus says *the flesh 8is no help at all*.
Likewise, we can ask you the same question. Where do you get off determining what is literal and real and what is not.
Interpreting Scripture is not an option for you.
You pick and choose those verses you want to be literal
Backatcha, especially when Jesus says
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
How do I know it's not "literal"? Simple...did Jesus hand them His human flesh to eat and His human blood to drink or did He use the bread and wine to SYMBOLIZE His soon-to-be sacrificed body and blood? Simply a yes or no answer. I can't get over how obtuse some are about this topic.