I know Mormons generally say that they take it literally, but I know of a few cases where they don’t. Besides that number thing, they believe angels are resurrected people, and not four-faced hooved monstrosities. I suppose with them it’s literal unless doctrine says otherwise.
With religions in general, you could try adding the probability that it happened and that it was written figuratively, and just do both.
That’s actually close to correct. Joseph Smith went through the Bible and corrected a few things; Moses is a refreshed version of Genesis chapters 1 through Noah or so; Smith also gave us a chunk of Matthew that was missing.… other than that, basically if we find contradictions, we shrug and say “must be a mistranslation”. Also, Book of Mormon takes truth-precedence over the Bible, since it’s been tampered with less. :P
I know Mormons generally say that they take it literally, but I know of a few cases where they don’t. Besides that number thing, they believe angels are resurrected people, and not four-faced hooved monstrosities. I suppose with them it’s literal unless doctrine says otherwise.
With religions in general, you could try adding the probability that it happened and that it was written figuratively, and just do both.
That’s actually close to correct. Joseph Smith went through the Bible and corrected a few things; Moses is a refreshed version of Genesis chapters 1 through Noah or so; Smith also gave us a chunk of Matthew that was missing.… other than that, basically if we find contradictions, we shrug and say “must be a mistranslation”. Also, Book of Mormon takes truth-precedence over the Bible, since it’s been tampered with less. :P