Talked to a military survivalist who loved teaching Louisiana boys because they would actually gain weight eating bugs and stuff . Apparently we will eat anything <| sep |> But in his own mind , he ' s the , he ' s the real cool whip ! <| sep |> Well yes , but there have been two answers to that throughout history . 1 the first has been to accept the meaning as it is and not engage in interpretation , basically accept it as true and not ask questions . This however will not satisfy those who do not believe already in the faith , and the argument to simply accept it as it is will be seen as avoiding an explanationor at least I think this is how it will be perceived . 2 the second is to accept it figuratively , as accepting it literally is impossible logically . For some reason most of the people on this are hardsalafi types and completly reject the second method , even though it has been used by scholars since the beginning of the Mu ' tazilite school till today . Also they seem to reject the fact that any evidence they have of the companions accepting it asitis was also available to the scholars who participated in thses debates , and in the end the majority school Ashari defeated the Mu ' tazilites who initially held these view and adopted it as their own view . from then it has been used as the majority opinion among the sunni and shia .