To heap burning coals upon the head of an enemy!!??
“If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; For in doing so, you will heap burning coals upon his head...” (Proverbs 25:21-22)
The idioms and metaphors of Scripture sometimes get taken way too literally and thus can twist the message of Scripture into something cruel and unkind.
As such, what does it mean to heap burning coals upon the head of an enemy?
And in what other ways might we be misunderstanding the symbol of fire in Scripture?
u/Ben-008 — 1 day ago