Using stories

Over at Necat Draco Dubbahdee explores how words and phrases that describe things we haven’t experienced yet can be given content by the vicarious experience of a story.

Jesus told of us things we don’t see every day, and His parables help define His terms, no matter what language we translate them into. The Muslims say the Koran cannot be translated; Jesus’ parables help translate themselves. I know which I judge more universal.