It means that this blinding light reminded her of something spiritual just like those stories used in the bible. Usually, a blinding light represents God, Angel's, or something from heaven shining down on earth. Hope that helps!

Light (not necessarily blinding), is used in many religions as a metaphor for God, God's message, God's validation, enlightenment, truth, goodness, revelation, etc. etc. Many centuries ago, when people started writing/ inventing/ telling/ recounting holy texts (The Bible being just one of hundreds of such texts), people understood very little about earthquakes, lightning, thunder, eclipses, tsunamis, pandemics etc. They would invent stories like: "That lightning is a message from God to tell us we are doing the wrong thing - or maybe the right thing, depending on what the the king/ priest/ leader/ wanted to to communicate, or the politics at that time. If you do a internet search for: blinding light Bible, you will find several references to such phenomena in the Bible. They are just 'signs from God'.

Hi Spring! The sentence is describing the light that they saw above them and also comparing it to a light that you might know or be able to visualise - the light from angels or God that is described in the bible. When a light is described to be blinding and like it came of the bible, you should expect it to be light that is golden crisp and almost like you can't see through it but it feels like there is a presence around it, just like when angels appear in the bible!

'Like something from the Bible' means like something in a Bible story or like something described in part of the Bible.

It means it felt like an intense and miraculous experience, resembling those in some stories from the Bible. The Bible contains many stories that can be read as units. Instead of calling one of them "a Bible story," or "a story from the Bible," it can be called "a story out of the Bible." The phrasing suggests that you've separated it out. So it doesn't mean light is shining out of a book. It means that it is like Bible story in which people experience a blinding light above them. Here is an example of "something out of the Bible" involving a bright, miraculous light from the sky. "And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire."