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| It helps to know what we’re looking at. |
A word picture is a helpful way to describe
a particular aspect of a spiritual reality. Unsurprisingly, we find the word of
God to be full of them: images from the parables of the Lord Jesus, the poetic metaphors
of the Psalms, the similes of Isaiah or the illustrations of the
apostles — lovely, practical stuff sufficiently simple and clear to
express profound truths even to our children.
Taken beyond their intended range, however,
these figures quickly devolve into goofiness and bad doctrine.
