Ignore?! No parts of the bible should be ignored, because they all hold meaning in one form or another. If you are studying a specific aspect of the Bible then you might skip over the "boring" parts, but those parts are still valuable. For example, all the genealogies were recorded so they can give an accurate record of the age of humanity, and indirectly the age of creation.

Yay someone recognized the reference

He forgot to press E at the end

About the metaphors, I also struggle with what could be literal and what could be metaphorical. I have to trust in the Lord that His thoughts are higher than my thoughts, even if I don't know all the answers.

It is supernatural, and does not make sense to us, because we are constrained by this world we live in. God created the world we live in. He is not constrained by the same laws of physics and space-time as us. He is omnipresent, which means He is everywhere in the universe, and He can choose places and times to manifest his presence. It's as if someone is editing a video, and applying effects and changes to the footage, which involves scrubbing the time back and forth. The editor existed before the video was started and he will exist after it is finished, but the people inside the video view everything normally as if no scrubbing was done.

I think II Peter 3:8 was describing how God is outside of time. Like when we make a 5 minute video go slow motion, we can watch it for 10 minutes even though the people in the video only experienced 5 minutes. In that sense, God can spend an infinite amount of time (1000 often means an uncountable number) observing His creation, but we still perceive one 24-hour day.

Understand?

Un, der, stand

Let's just hope it doesn't get a meltdown

So true

Yes it's babe, not Charlotte's Web

You're a more creative mind who loves great artwork

It's a state code

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