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1. Each one has a job to do for describing something about our union in a church. Each metaphor teaches us something different about what a church and its members are like. To describe the church as a family is to speak about its relational intimacy and shared identity.
Sep 5, 2024 · The Bible uses metaphors heavily, especially when talking about Christ. A metaphor claims that one thing is another thing. (This is a little different from a simile, which is an explicit comparison using the word like or as.) However, it’s understood that, when metaphor is employed, the two entities are not literally the same.
Nov 28, 2021 · The Bible writers and Jesus often mixed metaphors and the OP has listed a prime example. Here is another example from the writing of Paul in 1 Cor 3 - V1, 2 - Paul uses the metaphor of infants drinking milk; V3 - metaphor of a walk compared to the Christian life; V6, 7 - church compared to a plants in a farm being watered and harvested
Apr 16, 2018 · Later we will read, that Jesus says, “I AM the Resurrection”, “I AM life.” “I AM the true vine.” “I AM the way.” “I AM in God.” “I AM in you.”. But in the tenth chapter the writer of the Gospel of John goes all out and has Jesus using not just a metaphor but a mixed metaphor. For in chapter 10, we read that Jesus ...
In this article, we’ll explore 12 examples of figurative language found in the Bible, each shedding light on its teachings and narratives. These devices include simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, anthropomorphism, symbolism, allegory, parable, irony, euphemism, oxymoron, and synecdoche. By studying these examples we can deepen our ...
May 6, 2013 · Biblical metaphors drop into our hearts like a seed in soil and make us think, precisely because they are not obvious at first. . . . [I]t is the foreignness of metaphors that is their virtue. Metaphors make us stop and think, Now what does that mean? It is not clear to me that replacing metaphors with abstractions makes it easier for readers
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Metaphor in the Bible 175 understand the metaphor can understand the spiritual meaning of the text – and hence the need for exegesis. Theologians associated with the New Hermeneutics see the parables as units of pure meaning because the literal or referential function of language is not important, and, therefore, the meaning is the metaphor.
