So let's look at my last question. Pretty much all the answers that Christians provided were that the whole eye thing is a metaphor by Jesus. But truly, would it be efficient to communicate using metaphors? God knows that man is errant, and makes mistakes. Considering that at that day and age, the whole "eye for eye" justice was taken seriously, it's quite possible that people could mistake Jesus' words, and think he was being literal. Why would God risk it? Being omniscient, he could figure out a way to say what he wanted to say without invoking the use of metaphor.
In addition, even if you can tell it's a metaphor, people are going to disagree about what exactly what God/Jesus is using the metaphor to say. For example, on that very question, there are a couple disagreements on what exactly the metaphor is supposed to mean. So, why would God use metaphors?
Previous question; http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlQHSLFyqpEps0eHRvsNCKrsy6IX?qid=20070609001001AAScHIX
2007-06-09
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