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Why You Shouldn't Read Proverbs Literally
Every book of the bible can be read in that way, meaning reading it according to that particular genre. What that genre is is meant to how that johne is meant to help us learn about the plan and the ways of god. And then that will impact whether or not we read that passage literally, rightnd? If you're reading poetry or or proverbs, wisdom, literature, you can't really read that literally because it's not meant for that. It's a lot of figurative language, there's metaphor, there's images and those kinds of things. In that case, you can’t read it literally, but you can read it literarily. I mean