Bible Prophesy Interpretation vs Literal Word

I tend to treat the Bible as a book of parables, not necessarily a historically correct book.

This will go well.

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Many of you look to the bible and claim to find parallels between current events and biblical prophesy. This is done through interpretation,often symbolically or metaphorically ,of the literature. Yet other stories such as the creation story or the great flood, Sodom & Gomorrah are taken literally by many of you. Why?

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Sometimes I also wonder where in the bible it says you have to invite Christ Jesus into your heart to be saved from Satan's fire.

There is plenty of evidence of a great flood, at least in the mediterranean region.

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ThuperThumpin

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Be careful what you add and take away from the Bible,because Revelations and everything.

Btw, lots of cool archeological proof to the global flood and sudden disappearance of S&G.

I wanted to start a thread the other day that was sort of religious in nature that can be put under this topic, but I wanted to see if there are people on the board who simply believe "satan" is in us trying to force us to sin.

For example, when you hear someone who was going down a bad road once in their life, but they have "turned things around" and they say something like "Satan use to guide me and I didn't know any better so I listened to him, but now that I found Jesus, anytime Satan tries to tempt me, I know what it is and have the power to tell him no". Are these people speaking in literal terms? Do they really think that when they were younger and doing bad shite, it was all because Satan was inside of their head guiding them in the wrong direction?