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Kierkegaard ’ s sensitivity to the agony of becoming a Christian , Bonhoeffer ’ s intuition of his own religionless Christianity , Teilhard ’ s struggle to be an instrument in God ’ s cosmic plan even in diminishment and death , are all intimations of what is at stake when the theologian ’ s own self is taken as the human metaphor , the reflection of the inexpressible unfamiliar , the power and love of God . Remember that if an estate is intestate , the deceased has not written a will . " The unfamiliar , the sight of things in their singularity , is accomplished by the deformation of the familiar in the direction of the larger than life : this is the mythic way to stretch reality , to open the cracks into it . In the elderly , the incidence of all seizures by age 70 was about 25 % in the African American community of Harlem compared to 10 % in Caucasians . These modifications of animal structure are endless , all showing an external intelligence cognizant of the necessities of every distinct species . To say that it is metaphorical in language is obvious - - the multitude of familiar images employed by the New Testament to evoke that great unfamiliar , the kingdom of God , needs little elaboration . But when they began to interpret in different senses the passages which both had agreed in appealing to , then were discerned the guileless from the crafty , the genuine from the counterfeit , the straight from the crooked , then , in one word , the true apostles from the false apostles .