This seems to me to be another useless exercise in futility, I don’t why we allow ourselves to get roped into them.
The most effective strategy that the KJVO have is the event where somehow the rules of engagement get changed in the middle of the thread but never to our advantage.
Relevant things somehow become irrelevant (especially if things are looking bad).
Definitions of words and concepts are magically changed midstream.
The result: Suddenly we become “ignorant” because we are unable to understand because we just don’t understand.
BTW, metaphor is metaphor. In fact there is a picture of Jesus Christ in the Scripture portrayed as a serpent, the favorite scriptural image of you-know-who.
Numbers 21:8-9
And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
John 3:14-15
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.