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understand parables (Mat 13:13) and to help us understand and remember by using
exaggeration, extreme imagery and dramatic license (Rom 10:17, 2 Tim 3:15-16).

Another example of the Word being not literally true is when God issues a
prophecy that turns out to be a contingent prophecy but which is not originally
announced as such (1 Sam 23:12-14, Jonah 3:4, 10).

There are four categories of understanding the Word:

The level of parables (Mat 13:3) which by itself means initially being unable to
grasp the spiritual truth in the conscious mind but able to receive it in the basic
spirit of the listener (Mat 13:3, Rom 10:17, Heb 4:12, 2 Tim 3:16).

Those first principles that form the milk of the Word (Heb 5:12-14, 1 Pet 2:2).

The doctrine that forms the meat of the Word (Isaiah 28:9, Heb 5:12-14).

Those doctrines of the Word that are revealed in/via the Third Heaven or Paradise
(2 Cor 12:2-4).

All Christians have access to all this understanding, even the last category (Eph
1:3), according to their desire to receive it (Mat 7:7, 11, Mark 4:11-12, John 7:17).

Other examples of factually incorrect, non literal, but spiritually true, parabolical,
statements are: 1 Samuel 13:5 ‘as the sand which is on the sea shore’ and 1 Kings
4:20 ‘ as the sand which is by the sea in multitude’ - which literally means all the
sand on all the seashores in the world. Also, contrary to the facts of Nehemiah
13:1, but in accordance with the spiritual truth of Nehemiah 13:1 and the whole
holistic Word, the Ammonites and Moabites, if saved, can indeed come into the
congregation of the Lord (1 Cor 1:2). In factual terms there was also a number to
the locusts and caterpillars sent to afflict the Egyptians, a number God would have
known even as it changed (Mat 10:29-30, John 21:17), but in spiritual terms there
were as so numerous that they seemed like an infinite plague (Psalm 105:34).

Parable(s)

The Word itself claims to be a parable (Psalm 78:1-2 ('a' singular), Mat 13:11-15,
13:34, Mark 4:34, John 1:1, 14, Rev 19:13-16), which means that only by the Holy
Ghost can we discern what is factually and literally true as written (1 Cor 2:11-16).
God is a parable (Psalm 78:1-2, Mat 13:11-15, 13:34, Mark 4:34, John 1:1, 14, Rev
19:13-16). There are also parables about the future (Isaiah 11:6-8).