Quote for the Day
Indeed, I wonder if the emphasis of some Christians on the Bible being literally true is because they are concerned to say it’s really true. There is a colloquial use of the world “literally” today in an emphatic sense. We have all heard someone say about an angry person, “He literally blew his top” or “He literally exploded.” Does this mean his body came apart? Well, of course not. But we all understand what is meant: the person got very angry. Interestingly, “literally” is here used in a nonliteral sense to mean “really.” So also, when people say, “I believe the Bible is literally true,” I want to ask, “Are you saying that you believe the Bible is really true? If so, I agree with you.”
— Marcus Borg, The Heart of Christianity
