aim: to understand that metaphors can convey religious meanings
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Aim: To understand that Aim: To understand that metaphors can convey metaphors can convey
religious meanings.religious meanings.
Aim: To understand that Aim: To understand that metaphors can convey metaphors can convey
religious meanings.religious meanings.
• Literal: To do exactly as something tells you to do.
• Non literal: There is a hidden meaning within the words.
What do you think the literal and non – literal
meanings of these phrases are?
Record your ideas on a whiteboard.
It’s raining cats and
dogs!
You are driving me up
the wall!
Sorry I must fly!
Don’t blow your own trumpet!
Can you think of any of your
own?
Psalm 18:2
God is my rock.
John 18:12
Jesus is the light of the
world.
Psalm 23
The lord is my shepherd.