At times the Bible gives
examples that are not only historically literal in meaning, but they have
symbolic or metaphoric [spiritual] meanings. For example, scriptures like “give
us this day our daily bread” or “the bread of life” statements that
actually give more meaning to the word “bread.” Bread can stand for all the things needed in this life, like
money, health, education, family, almost anything needed.
So, in some sense, scripture
does not nail down the “How tos” beyond showing the God/principles we are to discover
and learn in order to get to know who God is and make our own applications.
Sometimes, the Apostle Paul,
may give a specific set of instructions, like he does in Eph. 6:10-19 on how to combat
temptation, yet it still has much symbolic meaning.
More of this to come next.
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