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We do have to use our judgment to decide when it is to be taken literally or figuratively - just as we do with all written word.  Often we are wrong both with the bible and with other written words.




Many people do have different ideas of what that means and you can count yourself as one who has an opinion too. "Common sense" is often right and often wrong.




The copies are so good that we can know with a high degree of certainty what was in the originals. This of course is exactly why we can say that the story of the woman taken in adultery was not in the originals.


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