Robert Smith illustrates in his book how we need to use modern metaphors for traditional theological words.
original Sin = addiction or sinner = hostage.
Jesus took the ancient text of the OT and used common terminology of his day to re-explain it.
Sheep, managers, housewife, rich people, poor people, religous people, and many more. Perhaps a creative exercise would be to compare theological words to common objects and see what we get. Compare these two lists.
Scantification Car
Justification Sears Tower
Sotierology (sp?) Child rearing
Pneumatology Internet
Perhaps if we allow our doctrine inform our metaphors and analogies we might explain God's word more effectively.
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