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Your Filing Cabinet Metaphors

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Your filing cabinet metaphor seems simple enough to help technically challenged individuals to understand how a tablet works. Notably, Jesus used parables in the same way we use metaphors to explain difficult concepts or kingdom principles to his first-century audiences. For example, The Prodigal Son parable communicates God’s unconditional love towards sinners (NIV Lk.15:11-32); God values souls above rules and regulations. From a practical position, Jesus demonstrates the critical need to share God’s word to communicate God’s heart with sinners. Like the first century context during Jesus’ ministry, people were shocked or angered by Jesus’ decision to hang out with sinners (Keener 2011), Christians have permission to do the same understanding

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