Those that believe the bible word for word, are they sort of extremists?
I would not call them extremist, but there are several things that don’t make since when you try to take every thing as literal. For example, your faith cannot literally move a mountain, but you can overcome some mountain like obstacles. The creative days in Genesis were not literally 24 hour days. The prophecy at Daniel 9:25-27 does not work with literal 7-day weeks. I will go a little into detail on that. In the Bible, quite often Jehovah has given a day for a year. (Numbers 14:34; Ezek 4:7) In like manner, the Bible also speaks of sabbaths of years or weeks of years. (Lev 25:8; Exodus 23:10-11) In this prophecy, using literal weeks would be 483 days. Nothing happened in 483 days, but if you use weeks of years, that would be 483 years from the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem. “You should know and have the insight that from the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two wee
