Parables are used to give a historical law that comes along side of the spiritual meaning. Its where rightly dividing and what scripture call mixing faith comes in.. The Red Sea is a historallly true parable as part of the departure from Egypt used to signify this world The promised land signifies the new heavens and earth. .Without parables Christ spoke not. .
Spiritualize the signified language of God who is Spirit?
Spiritualizing comparing the spiritual to the spiritual (faith to faith) seems to be the prescribed way the spiritual understanding of a spiritual book..? Why would someone think it was odd?
If we were to look to the literal as walking by sight not mixing faith in what is revealed .I am sure we could find that kind of prescription and we could serve that master as a interpretation authority
Revelation 1 King James Version (KJV) The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and "he sent
" and s
ignified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Its seem you forget the hermeneutics he has given us commands us to understand that without parables Christ spoke not to everyone .Believers and unbeliever alike, purposely hiding the signified language of God used through the Bible. No where are we given commandments if the first sense makes sense look for the literal .
Matthew 13:34All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in
parables; and
without a "parable" spake he
not unto them:
Mark 4:11And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are
without, all these things are done in
parables:
2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for
the things which are seen are temporal;
but the things which are not seen are eternal
Where do we find this prescription not to search as for Silver or Gold or the hidden pearl of price the spiritual understanding that some call spiritualizing? But its seem the scriptures calls rightly dividing?