grasping the after wind
That's grasping after the wind
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Joseph of Arimathea was a very rich man. It would have been his "word" to his servants, and they would have actually rolled the stone. He just authorized it.
So you don't actually literally believe every word of the Bible then. You use judgment to logically interpret meaning that is not literally stated. I agree 100% with your stream of logic that interprets what the Bible means when it says that Joseph rolled the stone. The OP seems to be under the impression that one is rejecting something if one uses one's ability to reason rather than simply accepting that every word is meant absolutely literally. It is completely unnecessary for God to be absolutely literal in every single word of the Bible in order for the bible to be inerrant. Jesus was not literally a door or a gate but for us to understand the concept of how we are saved, calling himself the door or the gate is quite helpful. I would say that one cannot reject any part of the Bible and have any moral ground to stand on when quoting another part of the Bible as authoritative, but one can accept the fact that not every word of the Bible is meant to be taken literally without thinking that one is rejecting the parts one can reasonably assume are symbolic, idiomatic, figures of speech or parables told to illustrate some literal truth.
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