Try reading some Ramchal and get back to me.
Do you really believe that the will of God is for people to eat their way into paradise?
A person can be defiled or become holy, LIKE GOD IS HOLY, by eating or abstaining from certain food?
Can two males engage in anal intercourse?
I suppose if they take turns they can..
Its really not my thing, but thanks anyway.
What are the rules of life and from where are they derived?
In fact, if they Bible is purely allegorical, so is Jesus.
God spoke through the prophets using metaphors, allegory, homonyms, hyperbole, etc..
Why would this same God when giving the law though Moses, a prophet, speak in any other way?
"As the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts."
"I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name."