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What Is Literal Interpretation?

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  • Vern S. Poythress

This is a contribution to the dispensationalist-nondispensationalist debate. In this debate, not all dispensationalists use the word "literal" in the same way. The author examines this key word more closely, by way of examples, and then offers three plausible ways of talking about literal meaning.

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The Purpose of Symbolism in the Book of Revelation

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  • Gregory K. Beale

Why does God communicate through symbolism in the book of Revelation? Is Revelation to be understood primarily as literal or symbolic? Beale argues that the popular approach to Revelation—interpret literally unless you are forced to interpret symbolically—should be overturned.

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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, be it great or small, perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God. J. H. Newman
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