(August 27, 2016 at 10:01 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(August 27, 2016 at 9:15 pm)Stimbo Wrote:
No... please do enlighten us, o keeper of wisdom.
Nothing a little searching won't find for you.
http://www.biblesecrets.org/METAPHOR.htm
"WATER" the most frequently used metaphor
"Water," representing truth and knowledge, is probably the most frequently used metaphor in the Old Testament
So what can you intuit about "walking on water" and "turning water into wine"?
It also has a connection to the word "prophet"
The ordinary Hebrew word for prophet is nabi , derived from a verb signifying "to bubble forth" like a fountain; hence the word means one who announces or pours forth the declarations of God. The English word comes from the Greek prophetes (profetes ), which signifies in classical Greek one who speaks for another , especially one who speaks for a god , and so interprets his will to man; hence its essential meaning is "an interpreter." The use of the word in its modern sense as "one who predicts" is post-classical. The larger sense of interpretation has not, however, been lost. In fact the English word ways been used in a closer sense. (Underlining added)
*chuckle* I'm always entertained by the number of theists who go to such great lengths to demonstrate that the Bible doesn't mean what it says.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson