What if he was an alien from the planet Gorkon?
What if he was Gandalf? 🤷🏻♀️
I think this is the sort of mental gymnastics that are sort of missing the point of the excersize and trying to turn the Bible into a laboratory experiment.
Discussion
Listen if I’m just supposed to take the Bible as metaphorical truth then I’m already there, but seemingly a lot of people tell me I need to take it as literal truth
It's not just a metaphor, also not just a history text or a news report, but some mysterious third thing: a metaphysical story. It take place on Earth, but also transcends it. It tells us about the relationship between the Old and New Israelites and God, and it is a completely true story, in a way that no other story can be true.
I just take everything at face-value and extract deeper, profound meaning from it. Everything written in there was guided by the Holy Spirit and only the Truth can come from the Spirit.
To be honest, my experience was that I just ignored the BUT LITERALLY TRUE people and stopped feeling like my religion is a competition out out-literally everyone else, and now I generally accept the content as literally true. 😅
Being lectured at by the Jesus Is My Boyfriend crowd was such a turn-off, that it nearly made me give up on the whole thing. I'm just too cerebral for that.
The story of Christ is not merely a tale among tales—it is the one tale so magnificent that, if it be true at all, it must be the very heart of all reality. And if it were false or mere allegory, then reality itself would be a drab and broken thing, unfit for the soul of man.
The Christian does not merely believe in Christ; he wagers his whole life upon Him. He embraces the paradox, the grand defiance of a world that scoffs at mystery, and walks with joyful defiance through the valley of doubt, because to do otherwise—to cast off the Incarnation, the Resurrection, the great romance of the Gospel—would be to exile oneself into a wasteland of meaninglessness. Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is the refusal to let doubt rule. It is to choose to live in a world where Jesus Christ and his story actually happened, because it is so good and so beautiful that you refuse to live in a universe where it didn't happen. To call oneself Christian is to courageously live as though the world is enchanted.
Those are the ones thinking you go to Hell for NOT taking it literally, but if there was a God would he ever feel that way? Idk. Sometimes I wonder about my own parents on that. We were given free will and brains, right?