Sentences with phrase «long poetic metaphor»

Genesis is «true» as a long poetic metaphor for:... 1.

If «Genesis is «true» as a long poetic metaphor» then the actual event of eating of some fruit that was forbidden did not happen and thus there was no inherrited sin and thus no need for a ransom sacrafice from some savior which means the entire bible falls flat on its face.

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Part of the reason is that they are poetic texts and often use metaphors and similes we no longer grasp.

Wenders (Paris, Texas; Wings Of Desire) used to be one of the hippest and most cosmopolitan filmmakers around, a director of road trips and existential metaphors that twirled out into long passages of poetic observation.