another thing just
to mention by way of avoidance...avoid spiritualizing or allegorizing the
Bible. Spiritualizing or allegorizing the Bible. This is that which gives to
the Bible some kind of mystical meaning. In other words, what is on the surface
is not the meaning, but what is hidden becomes the meaning. This is very
popular. We could talk about allegorizing, it's quite...it's not quite as
popular today as it used to be, although it's finding a resurgence.
Allegorizing means to say that the historical meaning is not the real meaning,
and in fact may be nothing but a fabrication. The historical meaning is not the
real meaning, the real meaning is the spiritual meaning hidden beneath the
surface. And once you say that something in the Bible is an allegory, that is
it is only a symbol of the reality, you have just made it impossible to know
what that reality is because if that reality cannot be discerned through the
normal understanding of language, how can it be discerned?
John Macarthur
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