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Hyperbole

Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1050 **9/13/16 6:41 am**

In all seriousness, would those of you who believe Jesus used hyperbole's, please give us all the scriptures that are meant to be taken as such and why? Just asking for book, chapter, and verse.

I guess I've been naive all my life and just took the Bible as God's Holy Word, where if He said I could do it, have it, or give it... then I took Him at His word.

Before anyone attacks and ask if I have done everything He said I could do, attained everything He said I could have, or given everything He said I should or could give... the answer is no, I haven't. But, that is on me and not on Christ or His Word.

Just wanting to understand why there is such a divide in believing what is considered figurative and literal.

Matthew 5:29-30

Golf Cart Mafia Associate Posts: 2109 **9/13/16 7:00 am**

if viewed in context of vv. 28 where Jesus says sin comes from the heart (see Matthew 15:19)
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[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **9/13/16 9:16 am**

Here's a rather obvious one, unless perhaps one believes somehow that Jesus taught that we must literally cannibalize his body:

John 6:53So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. ESV

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **9/13/16 9:24 am**

QW, that's not hyperbole...

Hon. Dr. in Acts-celeratology Posts: 6042 **9/13/16 9:25 am**

It is figurative/symbolic/metaphorical...but not hyperbole.

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **9/13/16 9:32 am**

But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, Matt. 6:3 ESV

(The above is quite literally impossible).

Re: QW, that's not hyperbole...

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **9/13/16 9:33 am**

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **9/13/16 10:02 am**

Mark 10:29And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, 30But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

So, if understood strictly literally, one who leaves his house, brothers, sisters, mother or wife for the sake of Christ and the gospel, will literally receive a hundred times as many houses, family members, etc. in this life, along with persecutions.

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **9/13/16 10:10 am**

You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.” (Matt. 23:24, NIV)

Again, the above (at least the latter half of it) is quite literally impossible.

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 15570 **9/13/16 10:12 am**

Wyatt speaks the truth!

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **9/13/16 10:17 am**

Luke 14:26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters--yes, even their own life--such a person cannot be my disciple. NIV

Both the Old and New Testaments, as well as Jesus himself (e.g., Matt 15:4-9), say quite emphatically that one of the primary commandments of God is to HONOR your father and your mother. Jesus even says we are to LOVE even our ENEMIES, not hate them. And yet if Luke 14:26 is to be taken strictly literally, we would have to literally HATE our own family members or else we cannot be His disciple.

Re: Hyperbole

Friendly Face Posts: 395 **9/13/16 10:59 am**

Friendly Face Posts: 395 **9/13/16 11:16 am**

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **9/13/16 11:17 am**

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hyperbole

noun, Rhetoric.
1.
obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2.
an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”.

Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1865 **9/13/16 11:18 am**

Cut your hand off, pluck out your eye, etc. Camel through the eye of a needle. These are shocking statements (hyperbole) intended to shock the listener into thoughtful consideration of spiritual truths.

The bible is replete with hyperbole and symbolism Revelation 14:20

I know what a hyperbole is, but.....

Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1050 **9/13/16 11:57 am**

from what I have read here so far is, IF we haven't seen it, done it or someone who we deem to be more knowledgeable than we, has wrote about it, then it is a hyperbole.

Are these hyperbole's since no one here has experienced it?

Matthew 1:18

Matthew 14:28-29

Luke 2:9-10

Acts 2:1-4

Acts 9:1-9

What makes one an hyperbole and not another?

Maybe, just maybe, the things we consider to be hyperboles are things that seem so outrageous to us that we can't wrap our minds around them and so it is easier to say that Jesus didn't really mean what He said, but said those things to make a point.

Friendly Face Posts: 395 **9/13/16 12:09 pm**

Ernie,

None of those passages contain any hint of hyperbole. Nor do I think they are necessarily symbolism or figurative.

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **9/13/16 12:09 pm**

I positively affirm the miracles that are recorded in Scripture, such as you have listed references to, Ernie. Hyperbole, metaphor, figurative language is another thing altogether. But I have given sufficient examples of such, and need not try to reason further with you regarding this. God bless!

Re: I know what a hyperbole is, but.....

Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1865 **9/13/16 12:15 pm**

Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1865 **9/13/16 12:19 pm**

I agree with Zefo and Wyatt. The examples you cited are not hyperbole. They are actual recorded historical miracles, which I also affirm to be true without question.