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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
I don't believe I ever said I disagreed with Rob. He also stated that there were more angles to the story. OA wrote an excellent article focusing on the elder son. Rob pointed out, his view, concerning the prodigal son.
Romans 1:5 starts out by saying that we have received BOTH grace and apostleship because of our obedience. Why do you want to skip over that portion of scripture. Many things we obtain are contingent upon our thoughts, actions and always our obedience. Cornelius' household, after receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost were "commanded" to be baptized. I assume the obeyed that command.
Part of the story is about rules. Commandment for a better word, since rules seem to have a scratching chalkboard sound. LOL! The reason why is because the prodigal son confessed that he sinned against heaven. He would have to know the laws of God to know he had done that very thing. |
Really curious about your ideas concerning interpretation. Read Maxi's posts and let me know. Who determines meaning?
Romans 1:5
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Through Christ, God has given us the privilege[c] and authority as apostles to tell Gentiles everywhere what God has done for them, so that they will believe and obey him, bringing glory to his name.
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Not sure what point you are drawing out, PO.
God chose you -- you didn't choose Him.
The younger son was a sinner. That's what we get from the story. Rules, as was stated in Rob's post, is not a central, or even present component in the story. One has to project them into the story. It seems suspicious that we want to project that into the story to begin with. For what purpose?
This particular story has a point, purpose and message. Luke seems to be in on this as he's recording it. The focus is not rules -- it's the fact that he is a sinner in extravagant ways, while the father is loving in even more extravagant and yes, shameful, ways. Meanwhile, the elder brother, the one stuck in rules mode, earning it, etc is burning with hatred over this.
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