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Re: Prodigal Son Distorted by FB Pastor
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Originally Posted by Socialite
The story begins with this:
So we know our audience...
He ends the parable of the lost sheep with this...
You tell me who he's probably referring to 
Then the Story of the Lost Coin...
Then the Story of the Lost Son...
Which ends with this:
Chapter 16 continues on with Jesus' stories...
Suggesting the son had issues with rules and then figured the rules were good misses, and yes, distorts the impacting message of the story Jesus told. The story wasn't a rubix cube, pick-your-interpretation, it had some very clear meanings to the original audience. |
It certainly did. But our thought processes are different than theirs. They spoke funny back then you know? Translations of text affect how we view scripture also. But I agree the core of the stories remain the same. Still doesn't mean we all interpret or agree on subjects.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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