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Speaking in Metaphors

Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown

Well-Known Member
My son, and some others seem only able to speak about religion (Biblical) in Metaphors and it drives me bats. Recently, I've been trying to understand why it is so offensive to me. Perhaps it feels like the one using the metaphors has depersonalized the scripture, or maybe they are just showing off their Biblical knowledge?
 
Enoch07

Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
Premium Member
Ellen Brown said:
My son, and some others seem only able to speak about religion (Biblical) in Metaphors and it drives me bats. Recently, I've been trying to understand why it is so offensive to me. Perhaps it feels like the one using the metaphors has depersonalized the scripture, or maybe they are just showing off their Biblical knowledge?
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Genesis 11:6-7 kjv

6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

I'm just being a cheeky Bible nerd.

Forgive meh!:p
 
sooda

sooda

Veteran Member
Jim said:
I would need to see examples, to know what you’re talking about.
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Famous Metaphors in The Bible

  • • Proverbs 13:14. The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life.
  • • Isaiah 64:8. But now, O Lord, You are our Father, We are the clay,...
  • • Psalms 23:1. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
  • • John 6:35. Jesus said to them, ‘ I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will not hunger,...
Famous Metaphors in The Bible - Literary Devices
literarydevices.net/famous-metaphors-in-the-bible/
 
PureX

PureX

Veteran Member
Ellen Brown said:
My son, and some others seem only able to speak about religion (Biblical) in Metaphors and it drives me bats. Recently, I've been trying to understand why it is so offensive to me. Perhaps it feels like the one using the metaphors has depersonalized the scripture, or maybe they are just showing off their Biblical knowledge?
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The Bible IS metaphor. And is symbolic, and poetic, and iconic. Because it's difficult to speak of spiritual matters without using language as a form of artifice. "God is like ..." is the only way we have of communicating about such conceptual phenomena.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
There was a lackluster STTNG episode about an alien race which
communicated only in metaphors....& those were only from their own
culture. It took an eternity (it seemed that way)....the whole show for
the Enterprise geniuses to figure out how to communicate with them.
 
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