Prodigal Son Distorted by FB Pastor

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by Socialite

And we can draw out presuppositions on a list a mile long.
It's a parable, though. We don't have license to do that. There is a point -- an intended point -- in the Story. I suspect our presuppositions are not really part of that. Especially presuppositions that are "imagined" into the story.

It may also be presupposed that the son had an older brother, who had the inheritance and the younger son was just jealous and bitter. He cashed out his small fortune and wasted it. We could also presuppose they all worshiped together (because most families did) and the son didn't care for worship anymore. He didn't see the point. He left home and did things his way. But he remembered those soft, and solemn times of worship and missed it and came back home. All presuppositions. We have to respect the parable and at least respect what the author (Luke) intended by quoting Jesus here.

Did you read the post Maximillian wrote in which he quoted Bloomberg? Excellent stuff!

My presupposition that his father had rules to live by is not even close to being imaginative. It's the way things are. Even God has commandments.

1 Tim 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

[Socialite]

Originally Posted by mizpeh

Did you read the post Maximillian wrote in which he quoted Bloomberg? Excellent stuff!

My presupposition that his father had rules to live by is not even close to being imaginative. It's the way things are. Even God has commandments.

1 Tim 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Yes, I did. I also thought it was good.

There is plenty of realities we could throw in to spice up the story. Parables give us what we need. We don't have to drag other realities into the story. Setting that as central to the story, or even central to the son's motives to leave or come home, whether true or not, is not even part of the story.

(I don't get the scrip reference)