What is to be taken literally?

I feel when it is blatantly obvious that it is not meant to be taken literally then it is the only time when it is open for a less strict interpretation of the given text.An example of this would be an omnipotent God who had just created the entire Universe being subject to "rest" on the seventh "day". Any individual that would argue that an all-powerful God would require rest, as stated by the strict, literal interpretation of the text, needs to reevaluate their belief system and the contradictory implications of such close-minded analysis.

Yaro, your objections to taking the story of creation literally are legitimate ones. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise.If the book of Revelations can be taken symbolically (which most Protestants believe), why can' t the story of Creation? With that being said, the very nature of God must be somehow related allegorically to that story in Genesis (assuming it was inspired by God, of course.) We should look at God wholistically as a deity and as someone that we are created in the image of. Sometimes we fail to acknowledge that, Biblically speaking, we are created in His image.Perhaps there is an equilibrium between a god consisting of all of man's characteristics and a god whose stoic and immune to all human emotion, mindset, and will which describes His true nature?