Eating as a metaphor
Eating is a metaphor for learning. Eating as a metaphor for learning (or knowing) is replete in scripture.
- Psalm 23:8 reads:"O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him" (KJV).
- And Proverbs 30:8 reads: "Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me" (KJV).
- We know eating is a metaphor for learning because the Apostle Paul uses eating as metaphor for learning when he says to the Corinthians: "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able" (1 Corinthians 1-2, KJV). And again in the book of Hebrews declaring: "For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe” (5:12-13, KJV).
Now consider that the author is God. When he uses a symbol, it is the same everywhere. [1] So every instance of eating is a metaphor for learning. Many teachers will tell you this is impossible. Now who are you going to believe?
- There are some pictures that look like a bunch of random dots, but if you cross your eyes just right, you can see a picture pop out in three dimensions. Now who are you going to believe? The one who says there is nothing there, or the one who can teach you to see it?
- Heb 11:6 But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
- We will have to learn to think in metaphor. It is more difficult for Westerners than those in the east, but we can learn to do it. Try to define a chair. It has four legs... well not all, and horses have four legs as well but are not chairs. Something you sit on... but you can sit on your hands, or a horse or a wall. Though we cannot define a chair, we all know what one is.