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.
if viewed in context of vv. 28 where Jesus says sin comes from the heart (see Matthew 15:19________________God-HonoringChrist-CenteredBible-BasedSpirit-Led
Here’s a rather obvious one, unless perhaps one believes somehow that Jesus taught that we must literally cannibalize his body: John 6:53
QW, that’s not hyperbole…
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, Matt. 6:3 ESV
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.
You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.” (Matt. 23:24, NIV)
Luke 14:26If 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. NIVBoth 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
John 21:25
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hyperbolenoun, Rhetoric.1.obvious and intentional exaggeration.2.
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
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 1:18Matthew 14:28-29Luke 2:9-10Acts 2:1-4Acts 9:1-9What makes one an hyperbole and not another?
Ernie,
Re: I know what a hyperbole is, but…..
Let me ask a question Ernie. Do you believe a camel can fit through the eye of a needle? Do you believe wealthy people can be saved, or only the poor?When the Psalmist says in Psalm 119:136