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I would advocate that one takes the parts that were clearly intended by the authors to be literal as literal and one takes the parts that were clearly intended to be taken figuratively as such.If parts are clearly meant to be literal and there are unexplainable inconsistencies the there is a logical problem for the religion.But so far there are no unexplainable inconsistencies in the clearly literal portions as best interpretedThe problems we do have is that it is hard to agree on what is meant to be literal or figurative and what interpretation is best. But that is true of every branch of human thinking.
I would advocate that one takes the parts that were clearly intended by the authors to be literal as literal and one takes the parts that were clearly intended to be taken figuratively as such.
If parts are clearly meant to be literal and there are unexplainable inconsistencies the there is a logical problem for the religion.
But so far there are no unexplainable inconsistencies in the clearly literal portions as best interpreted
The problems we do have is that it is hard to agree on what is meant to be literal or figurative and what interpretation is best. But that is true of every branch of human thinking.
