An intelligent Creator in revealing his thought must follow the method which our minds must follow in interpreting this revelation. When we know and seek to communicate our knowledge, we proceed from the general to the specific.[2] The Creator assumed to be infinite in knowledge would therefore...
But for symbols to work, they must signify realities that hearers instinctively identify. For instance, a ferret and a hippo in a political cartoon in the United States signify nothing to American readers. If the characters are donkeys and elephants, the readers immediately know the cartoon is ...