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Old 05-20-2011, 01:28 PM
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Re: Does Hell make sense?
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Originally Posted by crakjak View Post
How can you say this, when Jesus Himself said He spoke in parables least they should understand? He obviously has a purpose in many things being hidden from view. The Bible is not perfectly clear on a very many things.
A parable is not a hidden meaning. Rather a Parable is a story that TEACHES a certain truth. Some Parables were just harder to understand than others. Those that hungered for spiritual truth were more readily able to understand them

Mat 13:14 Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: "'You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.
Mat 13:15 For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'
Mat 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
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