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I feel compelled to say a few words about comments that I read regarding "parables" and "hidden meanings" in the Bible.
Let me say upfront that I do not hold to the understandings set forth by Pierre, Landry and others who are presenting ideas that, I believe, are very contrary to what the Bible declares. And I think my comments to them demonstrate where I stand regarding their view.
Now when it comes to "parables" and "hidden meanings", we must start with a principle that God lays down in the Bible that is expressed in Matt 13, Mark 4, Psalm 78:2, and perhaps other passages.
So lets ask, What is a "parable"? The best definition I have heard is "A Parable is an Earthly Story with a Spiritual Meaning". I believe that every "parable" in the Bible is teaching some aspect of the GOSPEL. This is certainly true when we read the parables that Jesus spoke.
But what about passages where God does not specifically identify them as a "parable"? We read, for example that Jesus is "the Lamb of God". Are we to understand that Jesus is a physical lamb? Of course not. God is using this figurative language to identify Christ with the lambs and other animals that were sacrificed as a picture, a shadow, at type of the sacrifice of Christ Himself as the Savior required to pay for our sins.
In the miracles that Jesus and the Apostles performed we are not told that these are "parables". But in raising Lazarus from the dead, in healing the sick and the lame and the blind; are these not pictures of Salvation where Christ raises the Spiritually Dead, heals the Spiritually Lame, gives sight to the Spiritually Blind. Who would deny this?
Then we come to other events recorded for us in the Bible that may not be quite as obvious at first blush. The Book of Ruth, the Book of Esther, other historical events recorded in the Bible. In addition to being very literal accounts of these events, should we not look for a deeper spiritual meaning, always relating to the Gospel in these event?
I feel compelled to say a few words about comments that I read regarding "parables" and "hidden meanings" in the Bible.
Let me say upfront that I do not hold to the understandings set forth by Pierre, Landry and others who are presenting ideas that, I believe, are very contrary to what the Bible declares. And I think my comments to them demonstrate where I stand regarding their view.
Now when it comes to "parables" and "hidden meanings", we must start with a principle that God lays down in the Bible that is expressed in Matt 13, Mark 4, Psalm 78:2, and perhaps other passages.
So lets ask, What is a "parable"? The best definition I have heard is "A Parable is an Earthly Story with a Spiritual Meaning". I believe that every "parable" in the Bible is teaching some aspect of the GOSPEL. This is certainly true when we read the parables that Jesus spoke.
But what about passages where God does not specifically identify them as a "parable"? We read, for example that Jesus is "the Lamb of God". Are we to understand that Jesus is a physical lamb? Of course not. God is using this figurative language to identify Christ with the lambs and other animals that were sacrificed as a picture, a shadow, at type of the sacrifice of Christ Himself as the Savior required to pay for our sins.
In the miracles that Jesus and the Apostles performed we are not told that these are "parables". But in raising Lazarus from the dead, in healing the sick and the lame and the blind; are these not pictures of Salvation where Christ raises the Spiritually Dead, heals the Spiritually Lame, gives sight to the Spiritually Blind. Who would deny this?
Then we come to other events recorded for us in the Bible that may not be quite as obvious at first blush. The Book of Ruth, the Book of Esther, other historical events recorded in the Bible. In addition to being very literal accounts of these events, should we not look for a deeper spiritual meaning, always relating to the Gospel in these event?
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