This view is not one that is promoted by the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church teaches that the Bible accounts and stories have to be understood within the time that they were written.

Some Christians believe that the Bible accounts and stories have to be understood within the time that they were written. The authors of the biblical books had limited knowledge of science and the ...

In early English use, literal referred to the straightforward meaning recoverable from reading a religious text, as in this example from the Wycliffe Bible dating to 1383, “Holy scripture hath ...

English language purists object to using the adverb to mean its opposite, but many other words have made a similar journey.