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Those that think that the Bible was divinely inspired without pictures have somehow managed to miss

the parables because the parables are inspiration through illustration.

They are pictures.

They are pictures.

They're the way he brought the listeners into something that captured in living color,

the things of normal life to which they could relate

so that he could teach them something unknown

through something known to them.

I loved this. I love this.

A little excerpt that is on parables in the Holman Bible Dictionary.

That whole section of it in the dictionaries written by Dr. Peter Raya Jones.

And he makes this statement in his definition of parables.

Just let this settle with you for a minute.

He says, Jesus could turn people's ears into eyes.

That's the power of story.

How many of us think in the way he would tell a story and in the colloquialisms that he would use,

the figures of speech, how many of us think about pearls before swine?

Now, whoever saw a pearl before a swine, but still will think about it continually,

because I think when somebody does something I don't want to forget,

or somebody encourages me on a day that I needed

it in the worst way. I don't want it to be pearls before swine. I don't want it wasted on me.

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