[SoothingDave]

How does saying that something is "spiritual" mean that it is not to be taken seriously?

Don't ask me, that's the non-sacramental Christian argument. That somehow when I see tha one verse I am to understand that Jesus is being symbolic, that He is not talking literally.

Whenever I try to poke at it, it gets nowhere. Maybe they'd answer you.

SD

[malakhi]

That somehow when I see tha one verse I am to understand that Jesus is being symbolic, that He is not talking literally.

Not being taken literally is not the same as not being taken seriously.

So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. (John 10:7)

Do you take this literally?