@qurlyjoe The verse about forgiving everyone was literal too. I am around a lot of Christians and I have never heard anyone claim that forgiving people was just a metaphor.
(You said forgiving everyone's *debt*, though... could you share a verse reference?)
@golemwire @qurlyjoe Matthew 6:12 seems like the obvious one? (It's not always translated "debt", but as far as I can see the Greek had both legal/monetary and figurative senses.)
@golemwire @qurlyjoe Deuteronomy 15:1-11 doesn't seem irrelevant either. (Admittedly directed specifically at Israelites, though isn't much of Christianity predicated on reading that as broadly as possible, at least when it seems convenient?)