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Lately I have been thinking about metaphors and scripture, namely metaphors of God. Are all references to God metaphoric? How do we know when a reference of God is a metaphor and when it is not?

I had a discussion with a group of people about metaphors and gave them an exercise. We took the book of Micah and broke into groups with each taking a chapter and jotting down every metaphor. We got back together and reported what each came up with and it was a great discussion, so much that we couldn’t even get out of chapter one. although this exercise was not specifically about God and metaphors, nevertheless it will help in that direction.

Here is an example,

Micah 1:1

The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Below are the highlighted metaphors

Micah 1:1
Lately I have been thinking about metaphors and scripture, namely metaphors of God. Are all references to God metaphoric? How do we know when a reference of God is a metaphor and when it is not?
The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

There are at least two metaphors in that verse…”the word came”, and “he saw.”

We talked about how the word can come to Micah as if it had legs or movement from one place to another. Now given what is written following this verse and the seeing of the word, one has to wonder if it is a vision or something else. What did Micah see? Was it an object or objects? Interesting study indeed.

Oct
18

I felt the need to reflect on the times I have shared with Juan James a.k.a. Enock who passed away on October 17, 2009. Faith, Love and hope family!

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12

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Sep
21

…the Christian Right, the Evangelical Left, etc, etc, then your problem is not politics, your problem is an internal one, its a heart issue, you need to turn off the TV, stop being sucked in my the sensationalism of You Tube and other mass media outlets, and pray, spend sometime in the teachings of Jesus Christ and learn a little bit more about basic Christianity. That is all.

Sep
21

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YouTube and Mass Media Sensationalism….The same primitive emotional lynching mob spirit of the past still lurks in the dark and you can see it coming into the light by        the feverishness created by the powerful use of youtube and all other video sharing websites. Just look at any youtube video concerning the divide over heath care, race, and now this ACORN situation, and all you see and read is fear, sensationalism, paroxysm, misplaced passion and anxiety. What’s worst is that God’s children are feeding into this mass media garbage. We see the same thing with videos done by fellow Christians on hip hop and hip hop artists such as Jay-Z. If Jesus was physically amongst us, what will he say or do? What would he tell his bride, the government, and the onlookers?