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I have been born into a family of Jehovah's Witnesses and can assure you that this is false. They cherry-pick what is to be interpreted literally and what not. For example, Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe into hell.
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It would be less wrong to say that they actually use verses whose literal interpretation would condradict each other and cherry-pick which one of those verses has authority over the other.
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I suppose you could say that Jehovah's Witnesses attempt to derive the coherent extrapolated volition of God by weighing all of the contradictions in the Bible against each other.