Yes, where metaphor and simile are employed, then it is written as metaphor or simile.
As written, of course. But do you think the author was writing about a physical heart?
Well, that just goes to show you were sadly mistaken in the way those children were being trained. Instead of questioning the wisdom of Solomon, you should be questioning the trainers.
And, are the children old yet?
As I said, where metaphor and simile are employed, it is as written understanding the metaphor and simile.
But you're conflating what is typically called literalism with poetry. That's not to say that historical narrative can't employ symbolism, but it is often in the form of simile. So the historical narrative to which I alluded does not employ symbolism. You might get away with saying the writing was relative to the frame of reference of the observer, except for that pesky moon, which we all know moves around the earth.
I don't have a wife. I have gorgeous girlfriend, though. And I spent a few days in Denver with her and her family.
And that's your mistake right there. As written also means employing the literary devices.
That's an arbitrary presumption, and erroneous. God spoke according to truth.
Yes, that would be true in 99% of the cases. The only place that would not be true, would be the center of mass of the universe. No one is saying the earth holds the Sun in orbit by its gravity. Assuming the earth occupies the center of mass of the universe, which Relativity says we can safely do, then the earth would be motionless, and the observations we make could be justified. It would say that the Sun and planets of our solar system would be carried around the earth by the gravity and centrifugal forces of a rotating universe.
Relativity says we can safely assume the Moon is motionless in the center of mass of the universe, and the earth and other heavenly bodies carried around it by the gravity and centrifugal forces of a rotating universe.
Either way, you get the drift.
And my citations of naturalistic, long-age, sources, are only for the facts of the Hubble's observations, the structure revealed by the Planck and Sloan surveys. John Hartnett, btw, is a Christian astrophysicist, and a young earth creationist.
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