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In the moment you just have to realize your interpretation of it perhaps needs a bit of work, and that many people do interpret it yeah ofcourse as do you, And many people make mistakes. There is only one true interpretation, just because it is not said to be litral does not mean people are being relative about the way they interpret. If you think the sentences above are meant to be in a litral context, you are indeed far away from understanding.
The problem with taking parts of the bible literally and at the same time interpreting other parts is that: there is no viable mechanism for determining which parts are literal and which allegorical. You can really see that something is wrong when different denominations interpret a passage completely differently, while others are taking it entirely literally. There is no mechanism used to determine which passages are meant to be allegorical save for the useless \"it would go against my faith literally, so it must be allegorical\". For example if we're interpreting things without cause this would be completely viable:
Jesus was crucified as the synoptic gospels tell us. Yet he was only up there for 6 hours (again, as the gospels say) - this was a
very short time to be nailed up on a cross. This obviously is meant to be interpreted that jesus was let down after six hours because they felt sorry for him. All other interpretations (including the rest of the gospels, an apparent contradiction) are either based on a faulty interpretation of the above fact or are a later interpolation into the text. Jesus did not die for anyone's sins.
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If you say that there is \"one true interpretation\", then you would have to provide a mechanism for determining which passages are allegorical or literal. Why, for example, should we take the views of hell as allegorical - but the crucifiction as literal? Whats to stop me from interpreting it all as a fairy tale? Or a group of roman plays that were mistaken as truth and promoted as religion? Lacking a mechanism, interpreting any passage (or the whole book) [as allegorical] is just as viable as your selected passages.
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In addition to that, you would have to establish why
your particular interpretation is the true one - why not any other?[/b]