This is not a sarcastic comment but a statement of fact. The word stupid refers to those who are called foolish in the bible.

Examples:

Psalms 14:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

Proverbs 18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

The fools are those who ”look without seeing and listen without hearing or understanding. This people's heart has grown coarse, their ears dulled, they have shut their eyes tight to avoid using their eyes to see, their ears to hear, their heart to understand, changing their ways and being healed by me.”

To make His point clear, He used the commandment “thou shalt not kill.” It’s a very straightforward command yet we like to think that one is justified to kill out of self-defense, to punish a criminal or to protect one’s property or rights (i.e. abortion). To think this way is to be a fool.

2. How do I know if I am to take His message in a nonliteral way (figuratively speaking)? You derive My true meaning. You know where I Am coming from.

Knowing who God is serves as the way by which we understand Him clearly. The misinterpretations of God’s words come about due to a lack of knowledge of God Himself. This holds true for anyone --- when we know a person well, we know exactly what they mean – often, even when no words are said.

Note the way God answered my question. His message for literal translation is very “matter-of fact” whereby His message for nonliteral translation is a play of words. In both answers, God is not answering my question “How do I know?” but rather giving me the grace to know. Thus, I understand His words (be this literal or figurative) 'Because to you is granted to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven … blessed are your eyes because they see, your ears because they hear!”

The moral of this message and the previous one is: It is not God who chooses who will understand and who will not rather it is us who choose whether we want to understand Him or not.

One time, I received a sculpture and I took the message literally. When the promise did not occur, God told me: “It is My analogy; you take it with a grain of salt.” I argued with God, feeling that He was “toying with me”, “leading me on” by giving me a message that could easily be construed as a literal message. For days, I sulked.

Then one day, I was speaking to someone who was going through a crossroad in his life. He was asking God to lead him and give him signs as to where he should go. God’s message to him was: “You see what you want to see and hear what you want to hear”. I realized then that this was also my problem, as with many people. We are blinded by our own desires and deafened by the voice of our will that we select only what we want to hear and see and interpret them to suit our purpose and wants.

The Prophecy of Isaiah

The reason I talk to them in parables is that they look without seeing and listen without hearing or understanding. So in their case what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah is being fulfilled: Listen and listen, but never understand! Look and look, but never perceive!

When Jesus said this, He was referring to Isaiah 6:

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”

At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of