Why much of the bible cannot be taken literally

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@kevin-eleven said
Have you opened your heart to Satan?

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Much, if not all, cannot be taken seriously on this thread, as it's literally a battle of words. Words that have been put forth by others, on both sides of the bank. And there runs the endless river of petty talk......let those with ears hear, we've heard it all before. There is nothing new under the sun. It's all vanity, personally.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of words, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

Come on people, we must give God a little credit for writing poetry in motion, after all he's the self-moved that put the whole physical universe in motion.

God, the poet, is mocking both sides. And God has a great sense of humor. Because God can write Tragedy as well as Comedy. Which is then combined so as to entertain ourselves through all those meaningless arguments, pro and con, of God's very existence. On one side we have A Big Bang theory for the emergence of a seemingly endless universe from practically nothing, a singularity. And on the other side we have creation from practically nothing, also. Which is also a singularity, the number 1, One God only.

“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
    says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
    Everything is meaningless.”

What do people gain from all their labors
    at which they toil under the sun?

Generations come and generations go,
    but the earth remains forever.
 
The sun rises and the sun sets,
    and hurries back to where it rises.

The wind blows to the south
    and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
    ever returning on its course.
 
All streams flow into the sea,
    yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
    there they return again.

All things are wearisome,
    more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
    nor the ear its fill of hearing.

What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;
    there is nothing new under the sun.
 
Is there anything of which one can say,
    “Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
    it was here before our time.
 
No one remembers the former generations,
    and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
    by those who follow them.

Wisdom Is Meaningless

 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind! I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.


What is crooked cannot be straightened;
    what is lacking cannot be counted.

 I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.”
Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
    the more knowledge, the more grief.

@kellyjay said
When what people think about something is more important than the very the
subject itself, the subject can be ignored as people are addressed as if reality is
based upon human thought.

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@pettytalk said
Much, if not all, cannot be taken seriously on this thread, as it's literally a battle of words. Words that have been put forth by others, on both sides of the bank. And there runs the endless river of petty talk......let those with ears hear, we've heard it all before. There is nothing new under the sun. It's all vanity, personally.

Yea ...[text shortened]... after the wind.

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
    the more knowledge, the more grief.

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