Davy
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Scripture would never ever spiritualize anything, now would it.
It always keeps everything TEMPORAL and CARNAL.
Just the way that dispen premil demands.
You mean you can't tell the difference between an expression and a literal truth per God's Word?
Then you must also... have problems understand basic expression in English, like "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" Is that meant literally, or is it an expression, or idiom only? You mean you can't tell?
Likewise in God's Word, which uses MANY EXPRESSIONS, because just like ANY OTHER LANGUAGE, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek ALSO use expressions and idioms, it's really not that difficult to know when an 'expression' is meant verses a literal prophesy or fulfillment of a literal prophesy.
And trying to turn literal Truths written in God's Word is one of the things that got early ones like Origen of Alexandria excommunicated from the early Church. He tried to apply 'allegory' to literal Biblical Truths.
The difference is, that God's Word does use... allegory, but it is easily revealed when He does, like, 'it is easier for a camel (rope) to go through the eye of a needle, than a rich man to enter the kingdom of God (Mark 10:25). Or, you don't put new wine in old bottles, lest they break, but you put new wine in new bottles, so both are preserved (Jesus referring to God's Truth as the 'new wine'). And often He even says... it's a parable, proverb, or saying (like in Isaiah 14 about the king of Babylon).
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