re: #561 Obdicut

Why are you choosing that one meaning out of the four as the ‘literal’ meaning?

The fact that he is choosing one gets back to my whole rant about how people of faith really can’t fully go all the way in interpreting a passage. We can talk about certain logical consistencies or inconsistencies, or say “if you believe A then this would mean X, but if you believe B then this would mean Y.” We don’t actually have to pick an interpretation to live by, because we don’t live by it.