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>the best way to read the bible is metaphorically.
No.
The point of a religion is to provide an unyielding truth that people, especially back when we had no idea about why any natural phenomena happened, could find safety in.
When your children were dying because of a plague, you didn't find comfort in metaphor, you didn't even know how to spell metaphor.
You trusted that the priest was telling you the truth and that through that truth the suffering of your children could be mitigated.
The moment christianity started being read as metaphor is the moment it lost all impact and importance.
The moment it started allowing people to act according to their own interpretation, it fell apart.
It stopped providing a singular, comforting truth.
The moment the bible could be used to justify anything, it stopped meaning anything.
The moment a religion loses that ability to provide a TRUTH, then everything it has taught has come into question. When everything a religion teaches can be reinterpreted then the current interpretation could be reinterpreted again. When it can't provide that eternal security of truth then it does not provide the eternal security of the soul.
And now christianity stumbles around like a drunken prostitute trying to suck the dicks of people it previously condemned to hell so they'll give it some money. It throws away any authority it had to suck up to groups it called sinners.
Metaphor is why churches are decked out in pride flags.
Literal is why Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world.
People are not comforted by metaphor. They're not secured by metaphor. They're not satisfied by metaphor.
They don't want metaphor. They want a truth they can really believe in.
Because the truth of anything is not supposed to be up for interpretation.