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    This phrase, as used in the NT, is not to be taken literally — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The phrase "worm that does not die" as used in the NT supports the claim that the punishment of the wicked lasts forever

    This phrase, as used in the NT, is not to be taken literally

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    • 1.NT authors used metaphorical language conventions common to ancient Semitic and Greek rhetoric, not modern literalism.
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    • 2.Literal interpretation produces theological or logical contradictions that first-century readers would have recognized as absurd.
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    • 3.Jesus explicitly taught in parables and figures of speech, establishing non-literal communication as his interpretive mode.
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