You got is exactly right brother: The only thing Rondonmon and Charlie think is literal is a decimated Promise land; even saying almost everything else is symbolic; but I say this, "Symbolic of What?" Like drinking Grape Juice and it turns into literal Blood? like eating bread and it turns into the literal flesh of Savior? But according to the flesh, there can be nothing greater than the Law: But did the Animal Sacrifices of Israel turn into the body and blood of Savior when eaten? So what do the scriptures say about these things?
2Co 5:16 Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh; yet now, we no longer know Him in this way.
1Co 15:50 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Savior says eat my flesh and drink my blood: but what does He say when reading on?:
Jhn 6:63 "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are Spirit and are life.
Even the Body of the Sacrifice Had to be taken outside the camp.
Heb 13:11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp 12Therefore Jesus also, that He sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
1Pe 2:24 He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
Rom 6:10 The death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
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Yeah I have to agree. I also like the way the Lord will use the literal in a symbolic way to emphasis a attribute and our connection to Christ. While I would never push this or declare this as doctrinal by any means. I just smile and think wow Lord you really do bring it all full circle so that every jot and tittle gives praise and glory to Christ. So with that said what I have found is cool is we know that after Christ was risen he has a new body that is made of flesh and bone. To which we know that we will be like him.
We go back to Genesis and after Adam receives Eve he makes the comment how she is bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. So from the start we can see God's divine plan. So I just find it cool in even the literal natural how God can speak to what will be a greater spiritual understanding of him and his divine plan and how Christ will end up with the glory and praise.