according to Jesus not all scriptures are literally true

 I've written a couple other posts on this topic before, here and here. Jesus and his followers, in the footsteps of the Jewish prophets before them, chose which writings to elevate and which writings to minimize. Jesus did this to Moses when he said an eye for an eye was not God's way in his sermon on the mount. But Jesus also does this in his temptation. His accuser shows up and says, "yo, you can get a lot of followers by doing this miracle based on the Psalms by jumping off this high place, because the Psalmist prophecies God won't let you foot dash against a rock. Maybe you'll levitate or something." And Jesus, who must have stubbed his toe multiple times in his life is like, "you is a fool, why you gotta take poetry literally like that, also the book says don't test God like that, Fool."

Jesus pointed out to my younger fundamentalist self that some things in the scriptures are more important than others. If you use the lenses of love is God's primary identity, then you'll be able to see which things are literal, which are poetical, which were not written in God's spirit and which were. If the writers were about taking care of our neighbors and turning the cheek instead of revenge, then you'll know they are the Jesus stuff. If they are about excluding gay people, or keeping down minorities instead of serving and elevating those weaker than ourselves, they are fully human.