You are welcome to demonstrate this. Show him.
”Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.“
You are asking me? Isaiah says God will kill Him with a sword. So what do you ask?
No, these were never biblical metaphors.
Bible uses the future tense. Your speculation its extinct is not biblical. Bible does not say Leviathan will go extinct, it says it will be killed by God with a sword.
Do you identify as God? Because only someone who identifies as God can seriously align their interpretation of metaphor as God's words!
Drinking blood, especially human blood was forbidden by Jewish law and eating human flesh was considered detestable which I believe is precisely why Jesus used this particular analogy. And I completely disagree with the metaphorical meaning that your applying here because it doesn’t fit the context of what He’s saying in the passage.
Look all you have to do is answer yes or no, you don’t have to explain anything, I’ll explain what it means. All you have to do is tell me was it intended to be taken literally?
It is the only metaphorical meaning given in Scripture. If you insist Jesus is being metaphorical then that is the meaning understood by the Jews.
I’m defending my position on this particular topic because I’ve been accused of being a hypocrite by not believing that the Eucharist is intended to be taken literally. The reason I’ve been accused of this is because I stated that others in this thread don’t actually believe what the Bible teaches in Genesis. I didn’t bring the Eucharist into the discussion but if I’m being accused of being a hypocrite in this thread then I’m going to defend my position in this thread.
Eating human flesh and drinking blood was forbidden according to Jewish law. The metaphorical meaning of what Jesus said was pertaining to receiving Him within us, that’s what gives us eternal life. The reason He chose this particular analogy was because He knew that the people who didn’t actually believe in Him would reject it and leave.
The morning stars are Jesus and satan.
Now you change your rules to suit yourself. God is speaking in Job 38:7 and He says the morning stars sang together. If you are not taking this as literal, then you are doing just what I am, looking beyond the literal into the metaphorical. If you insinuate that I'm calling God a liar by doing so, then include yourself in that insinuation.
I see them more as nicknames. It seemed that your point was whether or not the actually sang together in which case they probably did.
Regardless of how you view them, they are not literal stars. Or they are literal stars but did not literally sing. It has to be one or the other. This is my point.
You go with Leviathan still alive in the seas and God killing it with a literal sword (or with God literally sitting on a literal circle of the Earth or with literal days in Genesis etc.).
