...Lincoln in that vampire movie. Walking on water...pffft...weak...at least Thor has a means to fly.

...except, I might suggest it is better described as an infectious agent seeking those with compromised immune systems. Oh, and I should add, 'metaphorically'.

When you can’t quite manage to delude yourself enough to buy into all the bible’s silliness, it’s Metaphorical Jesus to the rescue. Then all you have to do is delude yourself into thinking the anonymous biblical authors didn’t mean what they obviously meant.

...does it (have to) mean anything (more than what we assign)?

https://m.

2) And his sly, word-"twist"ing successor - Spiritual Metaphor Jesus - is just as bad, in his own way. As even the Bible itself belatedly suspects at times (James 2.14-26, etc.).