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Robert Redford brought us into the knowledge of the “Horse Whisperer“, and now we have the “Dog Whisperer”. You do remember Cesar Millan, star of Dog Whisperer, the Emmy-nominated show airing on the National Geographic Channel, and author of The New York Times bestseller Cesar’s Way. Cesar was born in Culiacan, Mexico. As a child, he was given the name “El Perrero”, Spanish for “The Dogman”, because everywhere he went, a swirl of dogs surrounded him. Well, the Spirit whisper is really the metaphorical way to interpreting the Scriptures.

Is much of the Bible historically and LITERALLY true?

Absolutely!

Are there many things in the Bible that were stories told as MYTH (not a bad word folks) that become the glue of a community? You betcha! Are there images, parables, allegories, simile’s, aphorisms, and metaphors that convey even more than FACTS?

Once more, absolutely.

The bread and the wine are symbols of the body and blood of Jesus, but some of course take it LITERALLY? How they do it goes beyond my capacity to reason it out. Transubstantiation doesn’t work for me. It doesn’t work for the majority of the world, but it’s there in some communities. Luther said that communion and the elements were “signs“. Signs POINT to something. For me they are metaphors that speak of a TRUTH!

Metaphors, without getting too technical and lose the spirit of what I’m wanting to say, say to us that “this or that” is LIKE. As an example a DAY to the Lord is LIKE 1,000 years, but it is NOT 1,000 years. And thus I bring this to a close because while metaphors help us comprehend the Bible, you should always be ready to know that metaphors WHISPER, “It IS and it is NOT”

Can you hear the Spirit whispering to you?