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    It is not the case that 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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