If indeed the descriptions of lame people being cured, or deserts being made fertile, are only symbolic, then the question must be specifically and convincingly answered: 'Symbolic of what?" These passages are describing God's Kingdom. If we are unsure what exactly they are symbolic of, then we do not know the Gospel ('good news') about the Kingdom, and therefore cannot expect any place in it.
Kama kweli maelezo ya watu walemavu wataponywa au nyika zitafanywa kuwa na rutuba, ni mifano ya ishara tu, basi swali hili inabidi kwa namna yake maalum na kwa kusadikika lijibiwe: Ishara za kitu gani? Mafungu haya ya maneno yanaelezea ufalme wa Mungu. ikiwa hatuna uhakika hasa Ishara ni za nini, basi hatuijui Injili ('habari njema’) kuhusu ufalme wa Mungu, na kwa hiyo hatuwezi kuwa na tumaini lolote ndani yake.