“No. Allegory for what?”
Water being a cleansing mechanism.
“The fact that science keeps discovering things which confirm what people of faith already know—”
People of faith do not know, they believe...thus faith. We were not there.
The final quote seems to be saying to remain humble, which is fine. I certainly might be missing the point though.
"Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, [a]the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].
Hebrews 11:1 (Amplified Version)Bold added (as in my prior posts)
Yeah, we know.
Why provide an allegory when a simple provable statement of fact ("Water is a cleansing mechanism") will do just as well? The Bible is full of those.