I was listening to Alistair Begg, as usual on my way to work. He was talking about people who claim to take the Bible literally and demand that everything must be totally concrete. He pointed out the problem with this approach. The Bible talks about the eyes of the Lord observing and he said their literal understanding would mean a pair of giant, cosmic eyeballs looking around. He then made the distinction between taking the Bible literally and taking it literalistically. This is a new term to me.
He defined a proper literal understanding means you accept the Bible to mean what it intends to mean. This would allow for figures of speech, metaphors and symbolism. Makes sense to me.
He called the extreme version literalistic. It is a good distinction.
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