[quote]Incorrect. There isn't one passage in scripture that should be under the assumption that one can and should mean something different than what the passage implies. It always means and is interpreted to be the same thing. Always.[/quote]What it implies? Thats the thing what it implies, is [u]your interpretation[/u] essentially, people read metaphors differently. If someone rights a book anyone can interrupt things differently the only person who would know what they meant is the author which in this case is God. Unless you apparently are all knowing in what it means to be a "real" christian and have knowledge equal to God.