Keys to the Word's Interpretation Figures of Speech God is prefect. Therefore God's Word as it was originally given is also perfect. God's Word is to be taken literally whenever and wherever possible. However, when a word or words used in God's Word fail to be true to fact God is employing a figure of speech . Figures of speech are used in God's Word with a God given design to emphasize that which He wants emphasized.
Figures of speech are always more vivid and alive.
They paint a picture for the reader and thus call attention to themselves and the point being made. When God uses a figure of speech in His word, the figure has a God given emphasis. We must study the words of God to understand the accurate, perfection and precision with which God beautifully expresses that which He would have emphasized in His wonderful, matchless Word. Translators of God's Word have not always paid attention to the figures of speech in the original languages from which they were translating and consequently have made serious errors in translation. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, . . .