because it is logic that I am attesting to. Say I ask you to quote me word for word, and you use dynamic equivalence instead. That is rewriting what I actually said, That would be offensive to me. But for some reason God is not offended by it? And as far as allegorizing, I have proven how the majority of occasions in the bible you don't agree with, however you allegorize where you have to. Then I pointed out how a plant is alive, it has to be, yet you allegorize that to not mean alive in reality, and somehow it is only referring to the dirt, not the whole passage. Seriously, you should reflect upon your views more. See when I was in free grace, I had to reinterpret literally a hundred verses where it talked about repenting for salvation. It was so much mental gymnastics, that I vowed to never do it again. It literally caused me, or aided me in a mental breakdown, which took years to recover from. See your working way to hard trying to come up with alternatives to what the Bible actually says. That is too much work! You have to literally figure out dozens or more verses and how they can't contradict your view. It's much better to just believe what is said, and change the perspective to what is said. So far there is no verse you post that I don't agree with, but I have posted verses that you disagree with. That should concern you, if you have to change what was said, to match your viewpoint, your doing it wrong.