Re: reading

HOW DOES THE BIBLE ITSELF INSTRUCT US

IN EVALUATING ITS TEXT ?

All of Jesus words were symbolic.

There was nothing to be taken literally.

Matthew 13: 34. All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude in parables; and he did not speak without a parable.

He said that he would make things clear to his disciples and we will explain that one later.

But here we see as far as the text is concerned, it is symbolic.



BE NOT A MINISTER OF THE LETTER

MEANS NOT TO TAKE THE SCRIPTURE LITERALLY

2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the spirit gives life.

Hardly a comment has to be made.

Here you are being told as clearly as possible that you should not take the scripture literally.

In other words what you read as events never happened.

Yet in understanding the hidden secrets you will find that they happen daily within you.

http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/storiesjuly02.html