I highly suggest reading The Greatest Expert on the Scriptures Who Ever Lived And His View of the Bible, written by Chris Rosebrough. It’s a very well written piece that discusses why it’s important to take the Bible literally, rather than figuratively. The common ‘believer’ today who claims to be a Christian will prove that they are more than likely a false convert when confronted with the Truth of Scripture. When topics come up in conversations that expose how seriously one views the Bible, you will find these people not defending the Bible, but rather, struggling to bring down the character of those who take the Bible very seriously.
Those who take the Bible literally are the enemy. This is because literalists know we’re sojourners and have a mission to preach and teach the Good News. We know Yeshua the Messiah will return and when He does he won’t be the character portrayed in all the nice paintings. We are the ones who expose the deeds of the unbelieving and seek to bring them to repentance before our time here is up. We see things heating up in the middle east, head back to the Bible and note that the stage is being set just as the Scriptures said it would be and has never been before, literally. The allegorical agnostics who claim to be believers not only don’t see these things as Truth, but are vehemently opposed to those who do. Biblical Christianity is the minority in supposed ‘Christian’ nations and is the enemy in most churches today.
When Yeshua the Messiah came 2,000 years ago, he fulfilled more than 300 specifications (prophecies) laid out in advance over the previous several thousand years in the Word. He fulfilled those specifications literally. It can be understood in an illustration of making an order. When you order something, you expect to get what you ordered when the order is fulfilled. If the final product doesn’t add up to the specifications of the original order, you take it back. But if it does, then you don’t reject the order – you consider it fulfilled. As ridiculous as an example that is, it serves to make the point that the 4 Gospels, followed up by all the epistles we call the New Testament, were written to show that Yeshua was who He claimed to be. And because all of those specifications were fulfilled literally, it would stand to reason, through common sense and logic (the modern athiest loves those words) that the prophecies written and hammered at least 7 times more than the previous about the Second Coming and the Day of YHWH will also be fulfilled literally – probably moreso than you could ever imagine.
Chris Rosebrough was responding to a video interview of Marcus Borg. You can see the video posted in Chris’ explanation titled ‘What I Was Writing Against‘. For whatever reason, these guys seek the demise of the authority of Scripture and yet want to call themselves Christians.
