So be careful. Don’t take spiritual truths literally, even though they’re described with familiar words like up or down, in or out, behind or ahead, and on one side or another. We can’t not use these physical metaphors. No matter how spiritual something is, if we want to discuss it—since speech is a physical act made by the tongue that is part of the body—obviously we must use physical words. But how do we understand these? Do we take them literally? No, we learn to understand them spiritually.
