Everything Is More Than It Seems: The Bible, Metaphor, and How the World Teaches Us About God
Time and time again throughout Scripture, the elements of nature are used in order to describe God or how we are to relate to Him. God utilizes His own creation to give object lessons and to paint word pictures for us, His people, in order that we might begin to grasp who He is.
Don’t misunderstand: He intended all of this from the beginning. He began to create with all of these metaphorical lessons already in mind. He deliberately created real things with the intention of revealing deep spiritual truths about even realer things.
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