And it's also a form of communication that may be personal to you and you're talking about this more universal idea of language. (weekendspace.org)
He could make the local and particular stand for universal ideas.» (minusspace.com)
The compelling theology I have read on the issue is that the Genesis narrative is not a rendition of history as revealed by God to some historian, but rather that it is an allegory that touches on universal ideas of what it means to be human. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)