Opinion: The Bible and other works, let's say, The Lotus Sutra, are metaphorical. Anything that is truly timeless is, because times change. Again, IMO, the pur

Opinion: The Bible and other works, let's say, The Lotus Sutra, are metaphorical. Anything that is truly timeless is, because times change. Again, IMO, the purpose of metaphor is for you to create a special meaning from your experience, knowledge, mental processing and emotions, and thereby enrich the universe in Buddhist terms,[0] or otherwise, glorify a creator. Otherwise, as they say, "It's a Cookbook" and most get the dinner completely wrong, or become the dinner. Teachers teach us to cook. Intermediaries teach us to follow instructions, because if they taught us to cook, they lose their "privileged" position. “Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.” [1] Heaven is not divorced from the earth; enlightenment is not separate from ordinary mind [2] [0] https://palisuttas.com/tag/sutra-of-innumerable-meanings/ https://palisuttas.com/tag/sutra-of-innumerable-meanings/ [1] Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle [2] https://irarabois.com/read-the-eternities-who-knew-there-was-such-meaning-in-the-flight-of-a-bird/ https://irarabois.com/read-the-eternities-who-knew-there-was...