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Great thoughts!
Let me add my two cents' worth and mention that the elder son in the parable had the same problem as the son who left home. The son who left home figured he had to BE AS one of the hired servants and since he was not worthy to be called son. It was not a matter of worth, but BIRTH. The father ignored that well rehearsed line of being AS a servant, and hollered that HIS SON had come home!
But when the elder son complained about the treatment of the boy who left home, in light of his own refusal to leave home, and mentioned the fatted calf given to the other son when he never got one, the father practically said, "You mean to tell me that you were here all along and never knew you could have a fatted calf any time you wish?"
Both sons degraded their own heirtage by not realizing what they had all along! We do that so many times! We live far too below our priveleges. We accept far too little of what is our's and has been all along!
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...MY THOUGHTS, ANYWAY.
"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
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