Jesus taught in metaphores, right?

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The old testament was supposed to be taken litterally all the way through. So when the angry god told you to put a dead lamb on your door or he would kill you he ment business. The New Testament not. The 'official party line' as it were here in greece (Orthodox Church. Same as the Russians.) is that some parts of the new testament are supposed to be approached in an allegoric fashion, whereas others in a literal fashion. And the ones that tell you which parts are which are the Fathers of the Church and their sort-of-religious laws they pass at their congregations about the interpretations of the bible.

The idea is, that since said Fathers are divinely inspired (Holy Ghost), they can discern when something in ment literally and something is an allegory. So basically we have people whose divine inspiration stems from a God who is defined in a text they are themselves interpreting at will. Do you americans call that a catch 22 or something?

I'm not sure how all this works for catholics (do they take the new testament as all-literal? Do they disregard whatever they don't like? Not sure. I'd like someone to explain this to me) but it can't be much different seeing how smart the catch 22 idea is. Most judeochristianic offshot sort-of-cults don't pay any mind to the new testament anyway so that's a wrap for them. Protestants are an exception, but they have their own bunch of crazy interpretations to deal with.