Reminds me of Islam, to be honest. Their main theology sees their texts as unmoving, so anything that looks different must be wrong, even if it's reality.
Keeping in mind I don't have a horse in the race so this is just opinions of a heretic, I don't think literalism is sustainable long-term. If you just say everything is perfect and it clearly isn't, eventually the scales tip and there's nothing you can do about it. If you instead can focus on allegories and lessons, then the core of the work can remain even as the literal facts of the stories end up cast to the wind.
Keeping in mind I don't have a horse in the race so this is just opinions of a heretic, I don't think literalism is sustainable long-term. If you just say everything is perfect and it clearly isn't, eventually the scales tip and there's nothing you can do about it. If you instead can focus on allegories and lessons, then the core of the work can remain even as the literal facts of the stories end up cast to the wind.
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