With the part about taking the metaphors in the Bible not literally was very interesting to me. I know some verses in the Bible and what it teaches but I feel like whomever wrote the Bible left it up for the people to interpret the meanings on our own. In this way, though there may be misunderstandings, those misunderstandings are truth to some. I know that the Bible does not support the change of the definition of homosexuals, and so I've heard that homosexuals are supposedly going to hell. But also, I know that God teaches to love everyone and all different types of people. This idea is very contradictory. But, this is what the chapter in the book was talking about. That it's not going to make sense to take everything in the Bible literally. To me, its interpretation is that God loves all people and though homosexuals may be classified as a different "type" of people (although homosexuals are people as well), God expressed his or her love to them. So I cannot say that homosexuals will go to hell, because to me that's not expressing love. I'm not going to take the text of the Bible literally, instead going to interpret it in the ways that I believe my beliefs may express.
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