Were your just wrong...with or without the word symbolism ...He (Christ) literally took "sin" upon Himself and it was judged ...
Ro 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
IF it could have been judged symbolically ..why did He even need to suffer?
where did I say anything about it being judged symbolically? Can you not see your very limited idea of symbolism? It was judged LITERALLY, but that literal judgment was a symbol to all creation of the justice of God.
That could have been done symbolically too?
Satan is not really a drakon (serpent} That is a symbol of what he is. But it is a symbol portraying a reality, that he is the great deceiver of mankind. There cannot be a symbol where there is not a reality (even if an imagined reality as in idolatry) to portray..
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