The Bible bristles with vibrantly colorful ways of communication, including stories, riddles, poems, aphorisms, personal letters, alliterations, similes, and metaphors. We instinctively know what a metaphor does: it illustrates something about something. It doesn't explain everything about anything. We shouldn't go nuts with it.
Relationship of religion to society have undergone a massive redefinition from the
days of old. Bringing cause of the deconstruction now underway, unabated.
"Most likely, sound association with reality may be jeopardized when one is totally
out of the their element and limited to a relatively negativism of normal society."
The idiom “Pandora’s box” is a commonly used phrase that refers to a situation where opening one small thing can lead to a series of unforeseen and often negative consequences.
(boy, howdy)
And when ruin comes for the fool who resists reproof, it will be sudden and devastating: “He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing” (Proverbs 29:1).
